Almost 170,000 retail employees lost their jobs in 2024, figures reveal. Latest analysis showed that a total of 169,395 retail jobs were lost in the 2024 calendar year to date. This was an increase of 41.9% compared with 2023.

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1. Let’s be brutally honest here. 90% of the stuff for sale is crap.

2. The more convenient things like Amazon become, the less people want to fuck about going into a city centre/shopping centre for things they can order to their house to arrive the next day. It’s sad I guess, but inevitable.

   The generation who prefer going into shops are getting older, and soon won’t be going at all.

3. The title is wrong. I know it’s ITV’s headline and not yours, OP.

   I’m not contesting the decrease in the number of retail jobs but it’s false to say that 170,000 people lost their jobs. That implies they were made redundant. Only a fairly small portion will have been made redundant and the remainder will have been lost through attrition. Not that that’s great for the economy, but it does soften the human impact.

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