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Address Labor Shortages by Creating Attractive Retail Career Paths

Retail TouchPoints

Kotlyar predicted that remote consultations with associates will expand beyond apparel into the electronics and home furnishings verticals. Tech knowledge also will be increasingly essential as retailers learn whether remote solutions deployed during the pandemic might have “legs.”

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Back to school, back to learning or will it simply be back to home?

Retail Next

Traffic trends across categories are still down to last year, however, jewelry and home continue to be the brightest spots. Jewelry & home were -30-40% while traffic to apparel and shoe stores continued to struggle with worse trends.

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