Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Danziger reports on retail, focused on the luxury consumer market. Deep within the Bureau of Labor Statistics otherwise strong ...

One surprise in the November jobs report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics — jobs in retail fell last month by 28,000, seasonally adjusted. This comes at the time of year when ...

The number of retail jobs in the UK has shrunk by more than a tenth since 2015, according to new data. There were 2.76m jobs in retail in March 2025, 360,000 fewer than in 2015, according to the ...

The number of jobs offered by the UK’s largest private sector employer – retail – has dropped again, as companies shift to outsourcing and automation in an effort to deal with higher costs. This trend ...

Thousands of jobs have been lost at U.S. private-equity backed companies, and nowhere is this more acute than in the retail sector. In less than a decade, almost 600,000 retail jobs in private-equity ...

Walmart executives said artificial intelligence will have a hand in reshaping every job in the world, including at the retail behemoth otherwise known as the nation's largest private employer. Walmart ...

People lick their fingers, touch money and hand it to you. They take money out of bras or hand you bills soaking wet with lake water. When you become a grocery cashier, says Rachel Baker, you quickly ...