Stacking supermarket shelves has never looked so good

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With hundreds of thousands (millions?) of Australians losing their jobs, searches for supermarket jobs has rocketed according to Callam Pickering, economist at global jobs site Indeed:

Indeed APAC economist Callam Pickering attributed the “frenzied search activity” – which amounted to “tens of thousands” of daily searches – to the massive number of jobs already lost to the coronavirus and the belief that supermarkets would remain open and in demand.

…”what it indicates is that there was a certain desperation from job seekers from the middle of March through to now”, Mr Pickering said.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.