Sam Unstead
speaker
276 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5 Jun
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Underneath that, petrol prices, 16%, 17% for diesel and for petrol, very significant increase.
And that goes across everything.
Transport costs go up.
Everything kind of goes up.
For construction, you've got that in addition to a huge supply chain issue.
And then in addition to that as well, what you just mentioned, when it comes to, say, retail, the retail sector, construction as well, these are jobs where the extra taxes on employers, minimum wage increases, everything like that has all come through too.
So the costs in the construction sector are also biting pretty hard.
I mean, John, you were saying.
I think even banks.
I mean, the grocery sector in the UK is incredibly competitive.
I mean, if you live in this country, you see in their adverts, they are advertising against each other most of the time.
They're saying, we're matching Tesco, we're matching with Audi, or same for Sainsbury's, or all of them do the same thing.
So it's an extremely competitive market.
What they were talking about, this sort of voluntary price cut, well, the industry does that already, you know, voluntarily, if you like, because it is far more important for them to get people through the door than it is, you know, they will eat margin.
And they will do that, really, until they absolutely can't.
We're recording this on the day that Walmart's results came out in the US, right?
The way that Walmart and Tesco and Sainsbury's operate is quite similar.
You know, Walmart want volume.
So they keep prices low, get people through the door.
But they're saying today fuel costs are going up.
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