The UK’s largest supermarket chains are attempting to fight the unemployment problem by taking on more staff as they diversify into other non food products as well as attracting more cash strapped customers with lower prices.
Sainsbury currently leads the way with the announcement that it will create 2,300 new jobs in the north of England and Scotland by the summer of 2010. The third biggest UK supermarket group now says it is expecting to create around 20,000 seasonal jobs over Christmas and the New Year.
The figure represents a huge increase on the 12,000 seasonal workers that Sainsbury employed last year and is the biggest such hiring campaign that the company has conducted. The company expects to retain at least 1,000 of the temporary staff on a full time basis.
Tesco recently announced that it would be creating 800 jobs when it expands it’s Financial Service division in Scotland and Morrisons said earlier this month that it too would be creating new vacancies this year with 7,000 new jobs- up 40% from it’s original target.
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