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Title: Are fulfillment center jobs a good fit for laid-off retail workers? Author: Marielle Sagarra Source: Marketplace Morning Report

*Date: *Jan 5, 2018

*Summary:* They hadn’t been selling shoes at the mall. Online sales have grown by about 16 percent over the past year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/pdf/ec_current.pdf. That growth has coincided with a stream of layoffs in brick-and-mortar retail; employment at U.S. retail stores dropped by 0.3 percent, or almost 44,000 jobs, during the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Link: http://bit.ly/2D7iDLO ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library