Retail Hiring Report
42,633 live retail openings across the US this week — 44 of them remote (0.1% vs 4.6% across all industries).
Last updated August 9, 2026 · refreshed weekly · browse all retail jobs →
Most-requested skills in retail
Counted once per job description across the full corpus.
The language of retail job descriptions
The most common meaningful words, sized by frequency.
storecustomerservicemerchandisemanagerdollarcustomerssalesretailcareerguestmanagementproductsproducthealthvaluestockconvenientmemberssaveshopperslookingassistantdifferencefoodassociateessentiallearnfunctionsvaluesaccordingmerchandisingyou'llbuildleaddeliveringproceduresoperationsindividualeverydayitemsknowledgewhethercultureofferingservicesmemberlifemoneyfloornecessaryprogramsseasonalcleaningpoliciesjourneyguestsbullinventoryunique
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Methodology
USA Jobs Board aggregates live openings directly from employer applicant-tracking systems across all 50 states — no scraped duplicates, no expired reposts. These reports are recomputed weekly from the full corpus: counts reflect listings live at analysis time, and the language analysis covers the complete text of every job description in the corpus. Word frequencies exclude stop-words, numbers, and legal boilerplate; skills are matched from a curated lexicon and counted at most once per listing.