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Here in Japan it's getting difficult to hire for some jobs. One of my local convenience stores just closed because they couldn't hire enough staff to keep it o

Here in Japan it's getting difficult to hire for some jobs. One of my local convenience stores just closed because they couldn't hire enough staff to keep it open. I thought it was fairly interesting because there was a kind of local wage war between it (A daily Yamazaki) and the 7-11 across the street. The 7-11 won. I'm very curious how this turns out given the deflationary economy. Will this drive inflation I wonder?

zkid18 7y ago
That's interesting. I always thought the convenience stores positions on the job market are pretty strong. The demand for low-wage jobs is full-filled within アルバイト and foreigners. I might be biased, but since I moved to Japan I rarely seen any 日本人 at the counter other than students.
- mikekchar 7y ago
  That's definitely true in the big cities (in my experience), but I'm in a small rural town. Most of the foreigners have relatively high paying factory jobs around here (or work in the old folks home). Since there is no university here and high school students by and large are not allowed to work part time jobs, it means there isn't many people left.