Can someone from the British Retail Confederation (#BRC) tell us what the current impact of long-term sickness absenteeism has on their costs / profitability? Has anyone from BRC made a projection of the longer term cost impact that ill-health and a constrained skills / points based immigration policy will have on their business over the next 10 years? I hear a lot af complaints and protests from BRC members regarding the measures taken in the recent budget. I do understand their argument that reducing costs on businesses can stimulate growth and increase tax revenues which will fund the necessary public spending requirements. But history has demonstrated that quite often the additional tax revenues promised do not come and if they do come, tax cuts are often prioritised over public sector spending. Is it not the case that we need these cycles of labour and conservative governments to redress the neglect that each party exhibits towards certain segments during their respective terms?
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I quite agree with Tom Kerridge on this one, hospitality isn't only restaurants but kiosks, coffee shop, small take away or catering business. Every single operator got hit with COVID, now its price hike, but what loads of people dont know, another one is tax hike for imported goods, including cheese, a maximum charge of £145 will apply on imports of plant and animal products, such as cheese and fish, entering the UK through the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel from 30 April. This month will be very important to all operators, how they will work out their margins, not only food costings but also staff salary increase which went up just few days ago. Another one is ordinary people who were hit by price increase, now have less money, so less money will be spend, operators must be very active in running offers which still makes profit to every business but not to upset customers. Its a tough one and only strongest will survive, we are going through this battle since 202 and it doesn't look it will finish soon, until markets will settle and go back to normal spending habits. https://lnkd.in/e3Ts9K68
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