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SUPERVALU HAVE SAID they hope to create around 300 jobs this year as part of a €20 million investment programme.
The jobs will be created following the opening of three new stores and the extension and refurbishment of a further 40. More than half of the positions will be in Celbridge, Co. Kildare and Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare with the opening of two greenfield sites.
The Irish supermarket also announced that the brand recorded retail sales of €2.1 billion last year.
“This was achieved by delivering value to shoppers through price reductions, promotions and our extensive SuperValu own brand range,” said Martin Kelleher, Managing Director of SuperValu.
With 195 stores nationwide, SuperValu currently employs 12,000 people, including 450 butchers and over 200 bakers. It has an annual payroll of over€213 million.
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SuperValue have some great prices if you watch what you buy but they also sneak up prices on some items for no apparent reason…they must have got their training in Tesco who are masters at sneaking up prices every week..e.g. own brand Tesco beans up 10c this week and lots of other items as well…shop around is the answer.
Really like Supervalu their own brand produce is really good quality … I saw they got top marks out off all supermarkets in the Irish times price watch today
A bit of good news on the Job front at last …..
Eh… There’s been loads of good news lately
Not in the southeast
Eishtec are having their recruitment fair today for 400 jobs in the South East.
Actually it’s 250 jobs; but I wouldn’t put a cap on it judging by their recent growth.
Supervalu shops are my fave. I love their fresh food selection and their deli counter. Yum!! More Supervalu shops please!!!!
i welcome this jobs announcement but with scepticism, how many of these jobs will be fulltime?? i know that many jobs in supermarkets especially Tesco and Dunnes are only part time (only around 20 hours a week) and many of the staff are students, i know that anything better than dole but surely companies like Tesco should be hiring people for full time hours instead of token 20 hours a week
Not sure if my first comment was uploaded so will try again tesco get a grant every year to keep people off social welfare they hire loads of part time staff giving them 20-25 hours a week they always spread the hours out 4-5 hours a day over 5 days that way you cant claim social.welfare aswell thats how it was when i worked der anyhow
This doesnt exactly fill me with hope when we are bleeding well paid skilled jobs everyday and inceasing minimum wage jobs.
This is true.
Great advert for Super Valu but Poor taste putting chair in DISABLED SPOT. ????????
Jesus, I suppose that’s racist or some other bandwagon to jump on and insist on being offended about.
Ronan, I think you’ll find some people just go out of their way to be offended. It takes great effort.
To aay SV wmploys all those people is very misleading and factually incorrect.
The vast majority of the stores are privately owned and use the SV franchise. So the staff are employed by the store owner not SV.
All sv stores are privately owned. A job is a job lad who cares whether it’s a chain or a private owner
@seemyvest
No one is arguing that a job is a good thing, the point I was making is that SV are taking the kudos for the jobs when in fact they aren’t employing anyone, its the retailer
10% of sales go on pay. Dunnes used to function on less than 2 %.
Recession my foot. People emigrating ao less people to shop and Supervalu are one of the more expensive stores. How can this be normal?
Super news
@ joe oshea tesco get a grant off the government every year to keep people off the dole thats y they have tons of staff doing 20-25 hours a week and they make sure to give them 4-5 hour shifts so that they are working 5 days a week and can’t claim anything at all off social welfare… Thats the way it was when i worked der anyhow
Well done to Supervalu on there success to date, and for there continued success in the future, there own brand
products are excellent……Great to see an Irish company looking to the future and increasing there retail outlets
despite the state of the nation.
Is that box of gold blend tea for sale? Would keep me going for aaaaaages
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