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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 22648914, member: 19250&quot;]Let me say first that I spent over 50 years in the food business...I have a degree in food science,as well retail mangerment. I spent better part of 30 years at the helm of food stores...so I believe that I have a little more insight on the subject.</p><p>Retail is dying! It will be gone completely in 10 to 15 years.</p><p>I&#039;ve worked both sides of the business ...retail as well wholesale.</p><p>Stores at present cannot get or keep help...i had these issues years ago trying to man and maintain a 500,000 sq ft store.</p><p>Having seen this first hand there was a time that to be hired one needed to pass a back ground as well drug testing....well they may look and see if your a serial killer...as for the drugs&nbsp; no more...as they need help so bad that a drug screening showing the use of pot is now swept under the rug.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since 2006 I&#039;ve worked the whole sale side... one of the biggest give me&#039;s on any contract between&nbsp; a store and a whole sale company....is HELP!&nbsp; Based on sales each wholesaler offers support as if they didn&#039;t their products would sit.</p><p>Never being handeled or stocked.</p><p>Anyone in the know of these two sides of the business...knows the end is near.</p><p><br /></p><p>Companies no longer want FT help cannot get it to begin with... they dont want to pay a liveable wage or benfits...pensions ha ha ha ! That word might as well be removed from Webster.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can say,post and believe ...anything you like....but the truth is retail is DOA and will never be the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve sat in business meetings, with Pesidents,VP&#039;s....etc..of both sides of the business and I can assure you....this has and is being prepared for....the end of retail.</p><p>Now farm stores, and 7/11&#039;s ..etc..may still be operating. </p><p>However your major food ,and retail chains will be selling&nbsp; from a wearhouse and their goods delivered to you! </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been in the food business since age 12....next month I&#039;ll be 69....</p><p>I help open the first computer check out store in &quot;the world &quot;in 1974....</p><p>And truly hate to ring his own bell...but you have no idea...of whats about to transpire in the retail world.</p><p>Malls are dead!&nbsp; Us old farts are dying off and the generation now wants it now...they want it fast....they don&#039;t want to waste their time shopping....and do not mind paying someone else...or the cost.</p><p><br /></p><p>So believe what you like ...57 years in retail food and wholesale operations I believe I have the inside track. Either that or I spent way to many hours in meetings discussing this very subject with those whom are making it happen.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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