‘Price war costs jobs’
The supermarket price war was producing "quite disturbing" job losses in the retail industry, the secretary of the Shop Employees' Association, Mr R. J. Campbell said in Wellington this week. But in Canterbury there has been a price war without any signs so far of job losses. Mr Campbell said that
some supermarkets were shedding between a third and half of their existing staff and there were now 4000 registered unemployed shop assistants (including assistants from all retail sectors). Mrs M. Hilston, the secretary of the Canterbury branch of the union, said that staff cuts had not been apparent yet, but they could come.
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Press, 29 May 1982, Page 6
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