# Professor Allen Adamson comments on the factors that have led to a decline in the retail workforce

1 Faculty News June 7, 2019 ![Reuters logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030503.jpg?itok=0OAgrDF0)>

Excerpt from [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-jobs-retail-graphic/u-s-retail-employment-slides-to-a-three-year-low-in-may-idUSKCN1T82EF?il=0) -- “You don’t see many kids coming out of university saying ‘I want to go into retail,’ said [Allen Adamson](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/allen-adamson), an adjunct professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business.

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