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.
The aisles of this new e-supermarket are a long way from Oliver Hutchinson's former job as a travel manager. He said it has been a big change, but he is feeling lucky.
Hutchinson had been in his job at Flight Centre for less than a year so was one of the first to be let go when the travel industry ground to a halt.
Today he is filling orders from online deliveries at the country's first purpose-built online supermarket
"I think there's a shared sort of shock," amongst the new staff members, he said.
There are more than a 100 new staff onboard, they're helping to fill thousands of orders for households, which are then delivered to their front doors.
Countdown's digital manager Sally Copland says while the store was in the works before Covid-19, the lockdown and limits on people leaving their homes has caused a massive increase in online shopping.
Demand has skyrocketed over the past four weeks, she said.
The huge 8,800 square metre site is setup like a standard supermarket, but with no public, just staff filling online orders.
