Absolutely not the case. I managed retail for a while. They run skeleton crews. I did my damndest to hire more workers but I was always subverted by the (((upper management))).
The employees had too much work, coupled with the stress that they needed overtime to be close to finishing everything required, which they'd in turn be penalized for. Catch-22 hell. Retail workers are super stressed out aside from the niggers, who can show up whenever they want and not have to adhere to ridiculous productivity standards.
I remember working retail, they always used that word "multitask." It meant do 5 jobs at once because they were too damn cheap. Yet they wouldn't fire the stoner who slacked off, they would just put more work on the ones who would make an effort.
That's particularly common with the bif box hardware stores. Sometimes one employee would have four different department phones on his belt while struggling to stock, fix inventory, condition/zone, help customers, and play designated forklift driver.
I've never worked at a medium-large business that didn't tolerate useless workers, and unload all the extra work upon those willing to do it.
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