英国零售联合会表示，“大坝开始决堤”，零售商难以再抑制消费者价格上涨据英国零售联合会称，商店价格通胀已升至两年半以来的最高水平，该游说团体警告称，在零售商试图限制顾客价格上涨方面，“大坝开始决堤”。
British Retail Consortium says ‘dam is starting to break on the huge wave of costs’ being kept from consumers Shop price inflation has risen to the highest level in two and a half years, according to the British Retail Consortium, which warned that “the dam is starting to break” when it comes to retailers trying to limit price rises for customers.
该游说团体表示，10月商店价格同比通胀率为2.1%，较9月的1.4%大幅上升，这表明自中东冲突爆发以来，零售商开始将不断上涨的能源和食品原料成本转嫁给消费者。
The lobby group said shop price inflation was 2.1% year on year in October, a sharp rise compared with 1.4% in September, and an indication that retailers were beginning to pass on the rising costs of energy and food ingredients since the Middle East conflict broke out.