Crowds vie for supermarket job

Published: 4:23PM Thursday January 21, 2010 Source: Newstalk ZB

Thousands of people have queued outside a new Countdown supermarket in South Auckland, trying to get a job.

About 2,500 people presented their CV in the hope of being chosen as one of the 150 staff needed at the new store in Manukau.

Progressive Enterprises area manager Wayne Dohmen says the number of people applying has exceeded their expectations.

He says they still have two days worth of interviews to go and they had to stop taking new applicants on Thursday just to get through them all.

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