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Wall Street Journal: Your Covid-19 shopping habits are changing what jobs are available

Published Dec. 5, 2020. Updated Dec. 5 at 5:04 am

In this picture taken on Nov. 6, 2020, an employee works in the warehouse of Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, the logistics affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba, in Wuxi, China's eastern Jiangsu province, ahead of Singles' Day, also known as the Double 11 shopping festival - the world's biggest shopping event - which falls on Nov. 11.

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Your shopping habits during the pandemic are reshaping America’s labor market. The nation added jobs for the seventh straight month in November, the Labor Department said Friday. Most came in the transportation and warehousing industries—the ones that package, ship and deliver goods to consumers.