Tag: retail jobs

March 22, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is opening opportunities for retail giants to cut costs and boost efficiency, with many worried about the prospects of job cuts and mass layoffs. The latest research by the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) highlighted astonishing job […]

January 12, 2023

A recent study from U.S. News & World Report ranked 190 jobs in order to identify the best jobs in the U.S. today. Front-line retail employment did not land high up on the list. The role of retail salesperson is […]

May 26, 2022

A new report by industry charity the Retail Trust has found that one in five (21%) British retail workers and nearly a third (31%) of people working for the UK’s biggest retailers are planning to quit the sector. The Retail […]

January 14, 2021

Up to 400,000 retail jobs could be lost on the UK’s high streets thanks to the boom in online shopping and working from home. High streets across the country could lose between 20 per cent and 40 per cent of […]

March 9, 2018

Retail industry employment increased by 46,400 jobs in February over January, the National Retail Federation said today. The number excludes automobile dealers, gasoline stations and restaurants. Overall, the economy added 313,000 jobs, the Labor Department said. “This substantial gain in […]

December 11, 2017

Retailers’ holiday hiring may be helping boost November’s numbers. The annual hiring of temporary holiday workers is on track to reach the high end of the NRF’s forecast of between 500,000 and 550,000 positions, the organization said in a press […]

May 8, 2017

The retail industry had some good news on the job front in April. Retail industry employment increased by 2,500 jobs in April from March, the National Retail Federation said Friday. (The numbers exclude automobile dealers, gasoline stations and restaurants.) The […]

June 9, 2016

As the discussion of retail wages continues to rage on, with Walmart bumping its minimum wage to $10 per hour in January 2016, there are those within the industry who believe the increase in labor costs will inevitably lead to […]