SUPERMARKET Iceland plans to recruit 3,500 temporary workers to cope with the increased demand from the latest national lockdowns.
Iceland is now making 300,000 delivery slots available daily to vulnerable people from supplied government lists, Walker wrote on LinkedIn and Twitter. “I’m proud to say that within an hour of Monday’s Downing Street conference, we’d contacted almost 150,000 vulnerable customers within our database, offering priority access to delivery. Customer Delivery Driver (Former Employee) - Ryde - June 27, 2019 Joined Iceland in August as a Customer Delivery Driver on a permanent basis. After my retail experiences with Tesco's & Sainsbury's I was looking forward a permanent role within the industry but unfortunately was diagnosed with a tumor which meant I could not drive, (this was. Delivery driver Iceland Foods (Current Employee) - Belfast, Shankill Rd. 31 October 2019 Not really a driving job in the traditional sense, more a physical labour job where during a 9 hour shift, you load and unload hundreds of (often overweight/ overpacked) crates on/off the van, then you lift the bags from within the crates and carry them.
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It said it would hire 1,000 home delivery drivers, alongside 2,500 store assistants and online grocery pickers.
The move comes after bosses at the grocer created 3,000 new permanent roles in 2020, in addition to a further 3,300 temporary, seasonal staff hired in the run-up to Christmas.
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Iceland and others have seen huge spikes in demand for online deliveries, as customers are encouraged to stay home and the latest lockdown has required the most vulnerable citizens to shield during the Covid-19 outbreak.
Iceland said many of those on temporary contracts from the recruitment drive before Christmas are now being offered extended roles in the business, although it did not provide details.
As a result of the recruitment, Iceland has been able to handle a 300 per cent increase in home deliveries year-on-year by September 2020 - processing 750,000 orders a week.
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The supermarket added it has already offered priority online delivery slots to the almost 300,000 customers on its database who are on the UK Government's 'shielding' lists or have been referred to Iceland by local authorities and charities.
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David Devany, chief customer and digital officer at Iceland Foods, said: 'We're equally delighted to be one of the very few supermarkets with online delivery slots available to customers right now, and to be able to offer yet more job opportunities as a result of the continuing growth in demand for our service.
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'Our Iceland team is now well over 30,000 strong and I am exceptionally proud of the way our store and delivery colleagues have gone above and beyond during the pandemic, introducing new measures to help their local communities and offering a truly outstanding service to our customers.'
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