Retail Jobs

Online retailer Amazon said on Wednesday that it's closing all seven of its warehouses in the Canadian province of Quebec in the next two months. The e-commerce giant said the move would provide "even more savings to our customers over the long run". However, a Canadian union that successfully unionised one warehouse accused the company of closing its sites to fend off organising efforts in the region. The closures will eliminate about 1,700 permanent full-time jobs in the greater Montreal area, Amazon said. The warehouses also employ 250 temporary employees. Amazon said it would enlist local, third-party companies to deliver packages, reverting to a business model it used in Quebec before 2020. "This decision wasn't made lightly, and we're offering impacted employees a package that includes up to 14 weeks' pay after facilities close and transitional benefits, like job placement resources," Amazon spokesperson Barbara Agrait said in a statement. Agrait said the decision was made

There has been a decline of 11.80 per cent in Indians searching for retail jobs from August 2021 to August this year, according to a report. Indians searching for retail jobs has seen a fall during the pandemic and beyond as jobs in retail sector have seen a 5.50 per cent degrowth in the past three years (August 2019 - August 2022), global job site Indeed said in the report. Although retail job searches saw an uptick of 27.70 per cent from August 2020 - August 2021, it again de-grew by 11.80 per cent from August 2021 to August this year, the report said. This could largely be due to the lockdowns last year and the work from home set up where people chose to purchase online during festivities, it noted. The report is based on an analysis of data from Indeed platform from August 2019 till August 2022. The report further revealed that in the retail sector, managerial roles like 'branch manager' have the highest number of job postings (22.9 per cent) whereas sales associate level role

As e-commerce players earn big this festival season, India saw a de-growth of 11.8 per cent in retail sector jobs from August 2021 to August this year, a report showed on Friday

Joint report by Ficci-Nasscom, EY on nature of jobs pointed out that 95% of industry experts believed that creation of highly optimised supply chains would drive growth in retail in next 5 years.