This story was originally published on Retail Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Retail Dive newsletter. U.S. retailers eliminated over 64,000 jobs during the first ...
It’s not easy to keep a job as a retail worker, especially in the first two months of 2019. Retail store closures have been announced one after another, resulting in job losses. In January and ...
New technology like robots and self-checkouts mean even while consumers are spending, retailers aren’t hiring more.
Retailers are among the top five U.S. industries cutting the highest number of jobs mid-way through the year, according to a report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. Between ...
Many people shy away from retail jobs because they think they pay minimum wage. However, most retail jobs pay upwards of $20, which is above the minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. The best part about ...
A handful of retailers that successfully made the leap into e-commerce are hiring, but temporary, seasonal work as a store clerk or cashier during the holidays is no longer plentiful, thanks to the ...
I have edited corporate social responsibility reports for international companies, trained Olympic athletes for multi-city media tours and written on complex issues, including the global sourcing of ...
The retail industry was already struggling with consumers' snubbing of malls in favor of online shopping, leading to the collapse of stores such as Payless and Toys R Us and tens of thousands of ...
In the first 11 months of the year, the industry has recorded nearly 92,00 job cuts, with over 3,200 in November alone, ...