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Which Future Grads Will Run Your Store? - The Robin Report
Which Future Grads Will Run Your Store? - The Robin Report
Most retail talent development programs have not adapted to today’s digital marketplace and are not cultivating the right talent. Whether the industry can reverse this is unclear, which may only give way to more tech optimization and retail becoming less human. Add to that, the technology reshaping the store is moving faster than the talent systems can respond to it. If that gap widens, the store of the future may have fewer people in it, both customers and employees.
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