Retail A study by Oxford University, which was published before the COVID-19 crisis, showed that by 2035, up to 86% of restaurant jobs could be automated, as well as 75% of retail jobs. Amazon plans to create one million new jobs in India by 2025: Jeff Bezos Amazon, the world's biggest online retailer, said on Friday it planned to create 1 million jobs in India by 2025 through continued investments in technology, infrastructure, and its logistics network. A new paper released by Citi and the University of Oxford makes a startling prediction that 80% of retail jobs will disappear entirely and (similarly to mining and agriculture) will not be replaced. Jobs growth in retail will continue in Ireland with the addition of approximately 10,500 addition jobs in the retail sector between 2017 and 2022, while a decrease of 3,000 is forecast for Northern Ireland. Amazon represents a direct threat to 16 million American retail jobs and is part of a ruthless strategy to eliminate as many good jobs as possible. 47 percent of a retail salesperson's activities could be automated, and The British Retail Consortium predicts that over the next 20 years, 60 percent of jobs in retail will be at risk due to automation. As U.S. retail companies embrace automation, many experts believe that the impact on jobs will be significant, with some analysts predicting as many as 7.5 million retail workers could lose their jobs over the next decade. Amazon Go is nuking the concept of cashiers and if the rest of retail follows (likely to some degree) many jobs will be lost. As many as 7.5 million retail jobs are at risk of automation in the next decade. Up to 900,000 jobs in the UK retail sector will not exist by 2025 as a result of increasing tax, wage bills and digital growth resulting in shop closures. A growing population will probably drive growth in the demand for both low-and high-skilled jobs within the retail and logistics sector. The average high street in England and Wales has lost 40 shops in the past five years: More than 160,000 retail jobs are expected to be lost this year. The British Retail Consortium have projected that as many as 900,000 jobs could be lost in retail by 2025. Nuro estimated that within five years, autonomous delivery could replace 3 billion miles of driving by passenger cars, plus boost retail sales by $10 billion and create 130,000 jobs. Washington's largest increases in jobs this year will be in tech, online retail trade, and professional and business services. Two years ago, the British Retail Consortium warned there could be up to 900,000 fewer jobs in retail over the next decade - an industry that's the biggest employer in the private sector. The $300 million, 597,000 - square-foot Bridge Park mixed - use development in Dublin will add 373,000 square feet of office space and 224,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space to the city, creating hundreds of new jobs: Construction jobs will be in high demand in the coming year. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that the production of competitively priced natural gas will continue to dominate over the next decades. In Quebec, farmers anticipate soybean production to rise from 1.1 million tonnes in 2017 to 1.2 million tonnes in 2018. Preliminary total wheat production in Saskatchewan is expected to edge down from 12.9 million tonnes in 2017 to 12.8 million tonnes in 2018. At the beginning of 2017, palm oil stocks were down steeply by 3.4 Mn T. Despite a slowdown of the production growth world palm oil supplies will still be ample this year according to our current forecasts. By 2030, IFCN forecasts an increase in milk production per farm of over 50%. See full forecast Last updated: 20 September 2020 Hi, Would you like a quick online demo of our service from an experienced member of our team? Yes No Hi, Would you like a quick online demo of our service from an experienced member of our team? Yes No
