NEW - Holiday Jobs Are Coming. Just Not in the Stores Like They Used To

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Oct 22, 2026 · 8m

Holiday shopping once meant a department store shift; now a seasonal opening might lead to a warehouse. Retail expert Bruce Winder weighs what Amazon’s hiring offers workers, alongside what gets lost when shopping becomes a delivery.

A paper slip, a counter, and a brown box hardly sound magical. Consumers Distributing made them feel that way to Bruce. Add a Woolworth’s café visit with his mother, and the question becomes more interesting than which retailer had the best prices: what made going there an experience?

There’s also a modest proposal for keeping that…