Next is making a huge change to checkouts to avoid hiking prices but it will leave shoppers divided

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.

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.