WASHINGTON — America’s retailers, struggling to fill jobs, have been raising pay to try to keep and attract enough employees. It’s going to come down as competition intensifies.”Though higher wages are driving retailers to make workers more efficient, cost isn’t the only factor. Walmart employees can now use mobile devices to check whether an item is in stock and avoid trekking to distant storerooms. To try to raise productivity, retailers are turning mainly to technology rather that hounding employees to work harder. CEO Brian Cornell said in November that the company wants to achieve efficiencies to help offset the cost of higher pay and other investments.

Source: National Post December 29, 2018 15:29 UTC