Stop clutching pearls over five pence. On 8 January 2026 the sausage roll moved to £1.35 and the latte to £2.25, and the republic did not collapse. Do you prefer a five pence rise, or a smaller roll with a bigger story about unchanged prices? If labour costs rise and energy bills bite, someone pays, either the customer at the counter or the worker through frozen wages. I would rather pay the extra coin than watch standards quietly shrink, gram by gram, until the thing tastes like damp paper. You want cheap food and higher pay, but you cannot command both with outrage alone. Keep the rise small, keep the product consistent, and keep the queues moving. If you truly cannot spare five pence, your problem is not Greggs, it is a country that lets budgets snap this tight.