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ELI5: How come we keep adding retail jobs despite the increase of online shopping?
gpt
Many stores cut staff way back during the great recession, well below the natural employment to run their stores, so they are building back up to that level (ie. Best Buy having a person working TV, and another working appliances rather than having one person covering multiple departments). One of the main ways for retailers to compete with online is by providing service/assistance buyers can't get online, so that takes more sales people. Also, it's just a big sector, that adding a large number of jobs may only be a tiny percentage of growth. There are something like 15 million people working in the retail sector, so adding 150,000 jobs is only 1% growth.