Hiring

Consumers often decry the early appearance of holiday shopping commercials and decorations. For retailers, however, preparing for the holiday shopping season has become a year-round effort, especially when it comes to fulfillment center staffing. With e-commerce continuing to grow in popularity, much of today’s labor demand has shifted from brick-and-mortar stores to fulfillment centers. As…

Toys“R”Us, Inc., the U.S. toy retailer that filed for bankruptcy protection last week, said on Thursday it is hiring part-time seasonal workers to staff its stores for the holidays, including for a new position of toy demonstrator. The toy chain didn't disclose the number of people it planned to hire nationwide, though its announced openings for seasonal…

In episode 111 of Total Retail Talks, Richard Last, chairman emeritus, board of directors, Shop.org; founding partner, Axcelora; senior director, Global Digital Retailing Research Center, University of North Texas, offers his insights into the state of the retail industry, including how legacy brick-and-mortar retailers must evolve in order to remain viable in today's digital environment,…

This article originally appeared in Total Retail's sister publication, Inner Circle, the Women in Retail Leadership Circle's weekly e-newsletter. Here's part one of this two-part interview. We’re excited to share part two of our interview with Cindy DiPietrantonio, president of Alex and Ani, an omnichannel retailer of…

Rather than hiring seasonal workers, Wal-Mart is offering its permanent employees the opportunity to work extra hours during the upcoming holiday season. "These extra hours will help staff traditional roles like cashier and stocker, and newly created technology-empowered positions such as personal shoppers and pickup associates," Judith McKenna, Wal-Mart's chief operating officer, said in a…

While Macy's will hire 20 percent more workers during the holiday shopping season to staff distribution centers and warehouses that support its online business, total holiday hiring will fall year-over-year. The department store operator said on Thursday it would hire 18,000 holiday workers to fulfill online orders, including shipping and packaging, an increase of about 3,000 from…

Target is planning to hire 100,000 workers for the upcoming holiday season, a 43 percent increase from last year, after keeping seasonal hiring flat for the last four years. Target also said it will hire 4,500 people for the season at its distribution and fulfillment centers, which supply products to its 1,816 stores as well…

Melissa Campanelli, Total Retail's editor-in-chief, recently interviewed Jeannine D'Addario, senior vice president, chief customer officer at Guitar Center. D'Addario joined Guitar Center earlier this month, and will oversee the retailer's strategic marketing, brand vision and customer brand experience. Melissa Campanelli: Tell…

Amazon.com's relatively low-paid warehouse workers get the same parental leave benefits as the company’s highly paid software developers and executives — a rarity for U.S. hourly workers. Amazon’s move to revamp its parental leave benefits, which began in 2015, coincided with a wider wave of perk enhancements among booming U.S. technology companies concerned about retaining talented…

Amazon.com is hosting a job fair today in an attempt to fill 50,000 warehouse positions by hiring people on the spot in some of the U.S. cities that host its largest operation hubs. The retailer announced last weekend that it would host job fairs in places like Baltimore and Buffalo, New York for full-time and part-time jobs…