Word: eshelman
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...Bryan Eshelman, a managing director in the retail practice at AlixPartners, a global business advisory firm, says the retail recovery has a long road ahead. "We're still about $25 billion [in retailer sales] below the autumn 2007 peak on a seasonally adjusted basis," he says...
...People think that Americans are notorious consumers and will shift very quickly back to their old habits, but we're not so sure about that," says Eshelman. He speculates that because of the number of jobs that would need to be added each month, it will likely take five to 10 years for employment to return to 2007 levels. In December 2009, the country's seasonally adjusted employment was at 129.5 million, down 8.5 million jobs from its peak in December 2007. Even if 150,000 jobs were added every month, it would take five years to return...