As Retailers Shaped Holiday Hiring Plans In August, A Record 721K Retail Workers Picked Up And Quit

“Things are going to be real ugly this holiday season.”

Think of all these folks who under threat of being fired, reluctantly got injected. Nothing gives you the warm fuzzies about our job like the boss forcing you to violate your principles.

A lot of folks are half out the door.

I think the end is in sight for brick and mortar retail stores. I can see a future where Huge stores will display merchandise of all kinds which can be ordered at a kiosk in the store and then shipped from a central warehouse miles and miles away.

I go out of my way not to shop at a store. Not just because of stupid "Covid" but because of the hassle overall. Fighting the traffic to get there, jostling for a parking space, dealing with mostly indifferent retail employees, standing in line at the register where it takes 97 keystrokes to input a single transaction...of course the "mask" drama makes it even more unpalatable. I never wear a mask unless it is absolutely required like a hospital or subway train. But seeing 95% of the other all masked up like sheep, even when it isn't required, depresses the hell out of me.

So I just get it online and have it shipped to me. I now get all my meats delivered, my wines, my clothing, etc.

Your list is very similar to ours with some minor changes re time.

We haven’t been to a mall for well over a decade. Friends being held up in a mall parking lot in the day time stopped our mall shopping.

Even before the crud hit. We basically went to Home Depot, Costco, a local grocery store and Walmart. My wife went to Home Depot for plants, paint and stuff like that. I bought more and more from Amazon.

After the crud hit, we did Walmart pickup orders until that fell threw.

2 hour home delivery at Costco and pickup outside Home Depot after placing the order.

We gave up on Walmart due to outages/not in stock and not knowing about it until we picked up our orders.

Good local restaurants offer good takeout items at a reasonable price.

I grocery shop about 2x per week at a smaller version of a big chain with a great produce and butcher shop. If they are out of product A, I can often buy product B to replace it. This is done before I get into the checkout line.

I can compare product prices from most stores via an auto link to Amazon. Why pay more for product if I have to drive to the store to get it versus at a lower price to my front or back door?

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