Dear Orange Shitball - Forget About Fucking Coal.

[Minimalist]

Here comes your next crisis.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/25/busin...vania.html

In Towns Already Hit by Factory Closings, a New Casualty: Retail Jobs

Thousands of workers face unemployment as retailers struggle to adapt to
online shopping. But even as e-commerce grows, it isn’t absorbing these workers.

Small cities in the Midwest and Northeast are particularly vulnerable. When major industries left town, retail accounted for a growing share of the job market in places like Johnstown, Decatur, Ill., and Saginaw, Mich. Now, the work force is getting hit a second time, and there is little to fall back on.
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Moreover, while stores in these places are shedding jobs because of e-commerce, e-commerce isn’t absorbing these workers. Growth in e-commerce jobs like marketing and engineering, while strong, is clustered around larger cities far away. Rural counties and small metropolitan areas account for about 23 percent of traditional American retail employment, but they are home to just 13 percent of e-commerce positions.

I bet he puts Jared, The Boy Blunder, in charge of this too.

[Autumnlicious]

Almost like putting your eggs in the service industry basket doesn't work out. Probably why multiple European countries chose knowledge-based economies at the risk of upsetting their populist losers.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The loss of coal jobs and the loss of retail jobs have essentially the same cause - progress.

As coal becomes less and less a viable energy source, so brick-and-mortar shops become less and less attractive to consumers. Kvetching about either of these is akin to building a whale-oil lamp factory, then seeking an injunction against the nearest LED bulb factory.

Boru

[Minimalist]

You are correct but you have also identified the basis of conservatism.  They fear change because change upsets the status quo.  They hate that.  Nonetheless, progress continues so they vote for a dickhead who tells them whatever they want to hear.

[vorlon13]

retail job massacre looming on the horizon!!

Heard report in 5 years 25% of enclosed shopping malls will fail.


How many can be turned into Amazon distribution hubs ? And are current retail people desiring to work warehouse taping boxes together and loading styro peanuts till robots replace them for that ??


Maybe it's time to start phasing in the 32 hour work week, and keeping a 24 hour fall back handy ??