Stimulus payments and childcare limitations are deterring people from seeking jobs, said H-E-B president Craig Boyan, reports Grocery Dive. Boyan also noted that grocers are dealing with labor shortages because businesses across Texas are all trying to hire at the same time as the state reopens.
“Everybody's facing their own version of labor challenges and it’s across the board, but from my perspective, it’s driven by a combination of things,” he said.
Boyan expects the “labor crush” to get better in the fall, but, in the meantime, he urged companies to think of labor as an investment, not a cost. Full Story
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