The new store, where 90 roles are to be filled on the peninsula. Photo \/ Jason Dorday<\/p>\n
Supermarkets seek staff for checkouts, bakery, butchery, delicatessen, online, seafood, frozen foods, storeroom, forklift driving, fruit and vegetables, management and other areas.<\/p>\n
Foodstuffs North Island owns the property.<\/p>\n
It owns Pak\u2019nSave, New World, Four Square, Gilmours and Liquorland businesses. It employs more than 20,000 people in about 350 stores.<\/p>\n
Scott and his wife, Ashleigh Jackson, will open New World Te Atat\u016b<\/a> on August 11.<\/p>\n \u201cOur vision is that in 12 months\u2019 time, it looks like it has just been opened: QSC!\u201d said Jackson, referring to quality, service and cleanliness.<\/p>\n The Jacksons had invited 14 staff from their previous store, New World Tawa, to work with them at Te Atat\u016b.<\/p>\n Foodstuffs spent $50 million<\/a> buying, upgrading and expanding the Woolworths.<\/p>\n About 15,000 residents in the area were without a supermarket<\/a> on the peninsula because of the big programme.<\/p>\n A Kiwibank economics release out today highlighted the high unemployment rate.<\/p>\n \u201cWe see little risk of inflation becoming embedded in the economy through wages. We have a high unemployment rate (5.4%), a high underutilisation rate (13%), and low growth. With wage growth at 2%, we\u2019re at a low starting point,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n The soft labour market was weighing consumer sentiment down.<\/p>\n Auckland Council economic analyst Ross Wilson released Auckland\u2019s household labour force survey to March.<\/p>\n That showed the city\u2019s unemployment rate was 6.6%, a little above December 2025 (6.4%), and the highest since 2014.<\/p>\n The number of Aucklanders unemployed was 69,500 (+ 3400, a 5% rise).<\/p>\n The largest proportionate rise in unemployment rate was for those aged 20 to 24 years, rising to 13.1% from 10.7%, followed by ages 25 to 39 (5.5%, up from 4.4%), and 15 to 19 years (29.2%, up from 25.1%).<\/p>\n The lowest proportionate rises were for ages 40 to 54 years (4.1%, up from 3.6%) and 55 years and over (3.4%, up from 3.1%), Wilson said.<\/p>\n