Russia’s online grocery market has contracted for the first time in two years due to a severe shortage of couriers, The Bell reported on August 8. Russia’s economy is afflicted by asevere labour shortage that has driven the unemployment rate down to a post-Soviet low of 2.4% in July, but has pushed up wages at the same time. Many service sectors and labour intensive industries have been affected, including a shortage ofSiberian bus drivers. Now the e-grocery business has been hit by the same problems, as workers, mainly men, are drained away to the military. The labour shortage is forcing oper…