Retail Roundtable: Brick & Mortar Strategy

Why do you think the workforce can expect as retailers have adapted to the pandemic with leaner? Workforces You think we're gonna see more roles treated as seasonal? Is it going to be a continued leaner workforce? First? Do you think we're going to see a return of any of those brick and mortar roles? Or will they adjust and shift? Interesting for me though also in grocery. I I was in whole foods over the weekend, and there's an army of pickers in there. Right? Mhmm. Pick it for either the curbside pickup or for delivery. I mean, it there were more pickers than customers at one point. I mean, maybe there is a, you know, a shift in in the type of role that that retail employees will will actually perform. And I think there's gonna be, you know, if you if you look at the sort of distribution, the distribution model where, you know, a physical brick and mortar store can be used as distribution hub, then you might have a larger back stock or a back office stock that is going to be permanently manned by pickers and packet So I think there's gonna be some additional jobs that will be created as the sort of the the evolution of online on on the omni channel business, you know, develops.