Outrage as Greggs forced to LOCK UP fizzy pop after hiking menu prices with shoppers crying ‘what’s the world coming to’
GREGGS has sparked outrage after its fizzy drinks were spotted locked up just days following the bakery giant’s hiking of menu prices.
In a video posted on TikTok captioned “Greggs today”, one shopper filmed the inside of one of the bakery chain’s stores in London.
Focusing in on the shop’s drinks area, the doors to one fridge can be seen locked up with a padlock and chain.
Commenters on the video, after it was reposted on X, were frustrated and confused as to why the drinks would be locked away.
One user said: “What’s the world coming to when you got to lock up bottles of pop”.
Another added: “That’s ridiculous, surely head office never authorised this?”
However, some agreed with the move, saying “you can’t blame them”.
One person commented: “Has to be done the theft is becoming beyond ridiculous.”
A second added: “Not surprised the amount of people walking in and stealing stuff – can’t have nice things that’s what happens.”
A third said: “Can’t blame them, this is what they have to resort to.
“The public cannot be trusted.”
This comes just days after the bakery giant controversially hiked its menu prices by an average of 4%.
The increases introduced just after Christmas sparked backlash and were labelled as “disgraceful” by shoppers.
Roisin Currie, Greggs’ chief executive, blamed wage, tax, and food cost rises for the price hike, which pushed the price sausage rolls up by 5p to £1.30.
She highlighted that this was primarily driven by increases on the chain’s wage bill, with two in every three Greggs workers getting a 6.1% pay rise this month.
Currie added that a number of goods, including cups of coffee and steak bakes, had increased in price by “between 5p and 10p”.
She said: “We are trying to limit the price increases to pennies and protect entry-level prices”.
However, the boss did confirm that breakfast meal deals, which include a bacon roll and cup of coffee, and pizza evening deals were being kept at £2.85.
The spokesperson for Greggs told The Sun that this was an “isolated incident” and “not Greggs policy”.
They added: “It’s not something Greggs does or advises.
“This was a shop that decided to take those measures itself.”
Greggs in numbers
Did you know Greggs sausage rolls have 96 layers of pastry?
The first Greggs opened in 1951 on Gosforth High Street.
There are also 2,473 shops around the country — a thousand more than McDonald’s.
Greggs is now valued at £2.6billion thanks to its budget deals.
Nearly £2 in every £100 spent in UK hospitality is done in a Greggs.
Newcastle still remains the sausage roll capital of the UK, with Geordies scoffing 17.9 million of them a year.