Behind the scenes at NZ's first online-only supermarket

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English - April 16, 2020 05:35 - 4 minutes - 3.94 MB
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Former travel managers, bar staff, event crew, and lighting technicians are among the dozens of staff who have started jobs stacking shelves at a new Countdown supermarket.
The Auckland store is New Zealand's first online-only supermarket and will be able to fill up to 15,000 orders a week when it reaches capacity.
It has created more than 100 new jobs - many of those have been filled by people whose worlds have been turned upside down in recent weeks from the Covid-19 fallout.
On Thursday, Checkpoint cameraman Nick Monro and reporter Nita Blake-Persen went to meet some of them.