Retailers are eager to hire – if you’re a digital whiz

There is heavy demand for specialists who look at shopper data and feedback and scrape social media for trends, to figure out consumers’ loves and hates, and how to make store and brand websites 'stickier'. — Reuters

MADRID/NEW YORK/COPENHAGEN: Are you a “user-experience” gun for hire? Well, your time has come.

Even as retailers lay off hundreds of thousands of workers globally in response to the pandemic, they are seeking to capitalise on a consumer rush online.