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Greggs Says Omicron Impact Is Being Felt in Stores
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Posted on January 7, 2022
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1 min readLast updated: January 28, 2026
Add as preferred source on GoogleGreggs CEO Roger Whiteside notes Omicron's impact on store staff is disruptive but manageable, with business operations remaining stable.
LONDON (Reuters) – The chief executive of British food-to-go retailer Greggs said surging cases of Omicron were putting pressure on its store staff, but it was manageable from a business perspective.
“It’s disruptive and it creates problems for our people,” Roger Whiteside said in an interview on Thursday. “It is the impact on the people I’m mostly concerned with, rather than the impact on the business per se, because it’s still a manageable number from that perspective.”
(Reporting by Paul Sandle; Editing by Alistair Smout)
The main topic is the impact of the Omicron variant on Greggs store staff and business operations.
Greggs is experiencing disruptions but considers the situation manageable from a business perspective.
Roger Whiteside, the CEO of Greggs, commented on the impact.
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