Amazon, Target and other retailers are ramping up hiring for the holiday season

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Source: Scripps News/AP

Posted 6:30 PM, Oct 03, 2024


Retailers are ramping up hiring for the holiday season, but fewer seasonal employees are expected to be taken on this year to help customers in stores and assemble online orders in warehouses.

E-commerce giant Amazon said Thursday it will hire 250,000 full, part-time and seasonal workers for the crucial shopping period, rounding out a series of announcements made in recent weeks by the country’s top retailers.

Amazon is hiring the same number of employees it did last year, similar to Bath & Body Works and Target, which said in September it planned to bring in roughly 100,000 seasonal employees and offer current employees the option to work extra hours during the holiday shopping period.

Meanwhile, the department store Kohl’s encouraged people to apply for positions but stayed mum on its plans, mirroring Walmart, which said it’s been hiring store associates throughout the year and will tap into its own staff when needed during the busy season.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/business/company-news/amazon-target-and-other-retailers-are-ramping-up-hiring-for-the-holiday-season

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1. Translation Matrix applied.

...Walmart, which said it’s been hiring store associates throughout the year and will tap into its own staff when needed during the busy season.

Let me translate that. They are going to basically force their people to work as much as they can get away with, constantly juggling shifts so that no one can get 'full time' hours (or benefits), but they will be working full time hours. It just won't end up on paper that way. (Been there, done that.)

Yeah... the economy is doing great. As long as no one interferes with the exploitation, it will always do 'great' for those 400-odd people who own most everything.