Without using any names to preserve my legal reserve funds, I have an associate who formed a retail chain with their best friend.

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Retail work, including store manager and associate, ranks No. 2, and UPS driver helper is No. 3.

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Experts associate this with the fact that retail and food service work can be largely dependent on seasonal work.

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The arrival of a store in a typical county destroys about 180-270 retail jobs, they conclude, which suggests that each Wal-Mart associate does the job of 1.5-1.75 people at a rival.

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