Could add $1.5 trillion to the global economy by 2030, and create millions of jobs across various sectors, such as health care, education, retail and manufacturing.
Business Record
Employment in retail trade is projected to decline by 586,800 from 2020 to 2030, sharply contrasting its increase of 406,800 jobs during the previous decade.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
As e-commerce continues to grow in popularity, retail trade is projected to lose 368,300 jobs over the 2019-29 decade.
Impact Lab
If the strategy targets are achieved the combined value of agritourism and farm retail in 2030 would be around a quarter of a billion pounds (£250m) and support almost 10,000 full time jobs.
Flame Marketing
Recent economic data releases indicating jobs growth, strong retail sales, and high inflation levels could keep the Fed on track for another interest rate hike in the coming week, despite concerns that the recent banking crisis could have a broader economic impact.
Entrepreneur
The reason mortgage rates are rising again is pretty straightforward: Recent economic data, including strong retail sales and job numbers, suggest it might take longer than expected for the Federal Reserve to tackle inflation.
Fortune
Jobs that have been hardest hit - including service sector positions, retail sales, office support workers - face the greatest risk of transformation due to automation and digitalization.
Financial Post
Reduced commuter footfall, tourism and the shift towards online shopping could lead to significant job losses in face-to-face industries such as retail, hospitality and arts & culture over the coming years.
Social Market Foundation
Amazon's disruption of booksellers and retail has led to estimates of as many as 900,000 jobs lost; but at the same time, Amazon's workforce climbed from 200,000 to 800,000 when Covid hit.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
As one of the fastest-growing industries in America, the Cannabis Industry is booming with exciting job opportunities for the millions of Americans leaving their retail jobs for a better quality of life.
Herbies Seeds
The Equiano cable will improve median download speeds in Nigeria by up to six times, reduce retail data prices by 21%, and create economic activity that will indirectly result in $10 billion added to the Nigerian GDP and 1.6 million new jobs.
Rest of World
The retail and hospitality sectors face a grim start to 2023 - with job losses and store closures likely to rise.
Daily Focus
AVs can expand access to affordable delivery while also creating over three million new jobs by 2035, as retailers and delivery providers expand their services.
Railway Age
Automation and AI will affect millions of jobs in the coming years, and retail is one of the most susceptible industries: for example, 54% of current work activities in retail can be automated.
McKinsey & Company
Workers in transport, manufacturing, and wholesale and retail, and lower in education, health and social work are more likely to lose their jobs to automation by the 2030s.
Sapling.ai Blog
Job opportunities with Amazon make a big difference for entire communities where there are limited options for many people to earn a living, let alone to take the first steps in building their careers within an advanced retail and technology business.
EU About Amazon
Retail and trade jobs are strengthened as employment is projected to grow by 23,000 jobs, from 42,000 jobs in 2021 to 65,000 jobs in 2050.
Climate Council
The tech analyst's latest Future of Jobs Forecast estimates that as many as 12 million jobs could be lost to automation across Europe by 2040, primarily impacting workers in industries such as retail, food services, and leisure and hospitality.
ZDNet
The retail sector is expected to have 4% fewer jobs in 2030 with food and beverage down 8.3%, general merchandise stores (discount, department and warehouse clubs) down 7.7%, and all other retail down 2.5%.
The Robin Report
The retail and hospitality industries fear a wave of job losses across Scotland in the wake of the latest Covid restrictions unless emergency relief is put in place urgently.
The Sunday Post
British retailers have cut the most jobs in 2020 since the depths of the financial crisis and expect losses to accelerate adding to warning signs of an expected sharp rise in unemployment.
U.K.
Last updated: 22 April 2024
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