Price Chopper recruiting efforts bump up against the tight labor market | The Daily Gazette
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MALTA The labor shortage was on display Tuesday in the foyer of the Malta Price Chopper:
One hour into a job fair, there were two empty chairs and a single name on a list of job applicants.
To a greater or lesser degree, the multistate grocery chain is seeing similar response to job openings at its other locations.
Overall, Price Chopper and Market 32 supermarkets are short roughly 2,000 full- and part-time retail employees.
That works out to just a handful per store, enough that the staff might feel stretched but the shelves are still full and checkouts run smoothly. When you add in 130 other supermarkets in six states with a similar handful of openings, the help-wanted numbers add up quickly.