NEXT is set to introduce self-service checkout tills from next month in a bid to cut extra staffing costs from the Budget.
The comments came as the chain warned it would have to raise shop prices by 1% this year to cover the impact from the Budget’s tax raid.
ReutersNext will trial self-service checkouts in stores[/caption]Chief executive Lord Simon Wolfson told The Sun that shoppers would not have faced higher prices had it not been for the Budget.
“It is 1% on what would have been zero”, he said.