president of research development and industry analysis at the national retail federation the nations largest retail trade group say that a decade ago there was a move among retailers toward parttime workers in fact 31 of retail and wholesale workers excluding warehouse workers were part time in 2010 according to his analysis of government figures but in recent years that number has been declining as the popularity of online shopping has lessened the need to staff workers at odd hours in 2017 the percentage of parttime workers dropped to 27 but then rose to 29 last year because of the pandemic ap published on apr 15 2021 at 1149 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app walmart amazon walmart inc associated press costco retail target homenewsindustryto retain workers walmart moves more of them full time