135,000 retail jobs lost amid pandemic
Overall, sales and retail assistants and retail cashiers and check-out operators fell from 1,207,891 to 1,073,704
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Almost 135,000 traditional retail jobs were lost during the course of the pandemic, according to an analysis of figures from trade union GMB.