Retail associates are leaving for better paying jobs
June 21, 2021
Retail workers are leaving the industry in big numbers as they find jobs that pay better in other industries. Around 649,000 retail industry workers left their jobs in April, the largest one-month number in more than 20 years of tracking by the Labor Department.
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