We are constantly being told about this or that major retailer, usually one of the big five supermarkets, about the quantity of new jobs that they have created somewhere. However we are not told how many jobs the new business destroyed, the brand new supermarket or super store opens up and all the smaller retailers around it close down.
What's perhaps worse is that most of these "new" jobs are part time, very low paid and with little prospect of promotion. The retailers will no doubt argue with me that there is much potential for staff to work their way up inside the business but against what odds, today one of the biggest retailers ran an advert in our local paper for 75 new jobs and got 500 applications from desperate people. At this rate you will soon need a degree in retailing to operate a checkout or even stack shelves.
Expanding businesses rarely create new jobs they just destroy older, and in their eyes, more costly and less efficient ones, its called "economics". Just remeber that one new job probably means the loss of more than one old one, that's why there are more and more people becoming unemployed.
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Need a degree to work in a shop!
Actually came across a guy on the helpdesk in one of our local supermarkets last week who actually has a degree on retail management.
This is eaither a waste of a valuable resource or a waste of our education system. You don't need a degree to tell someone where the beans are!
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