Massive Texas Employer Now Closing 164 Stores, Laying Off 20,000

Texas continues to flourish overall, and we are anchored very well by the oil and tech industries that help us push through tough times when other economic factors have a greater impact to other states. Coincidentally, it is the tech industry that is being blamed recently for the hatchet to come down on several store locations and even more devastatingly to the employees of certain companies.

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Transportation might be the most important industry in the whole country, but for a state with almost 270,000 square miles, getting products across Texas is pretty much the lifeline for keeping the state running smoothly, so our residents can maintain access to essential goods and services.

Massive Texas Employer Now Closing 164 Stores, Laying Off 20,000

According to this USA Today article, the company formally known as United Parcel Service is in the midst of closing 164 stores this year, and intends to layoff another 20,000 employees. Just last year, UPS cut around 12,000 employees in an effort to save the business about $1 billion dollars, and now with Amazon deliveries being scaled back, they need less workers.

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You might recall in the fall of 2020 when much of the country was still very much locked down and overly dependent on deliveries, UPS hired about 100,000 new employees. Some of them were just season, holiday deliver workers and package sorters for the warehouses, but many did end up with full time employment.

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Things are significantly different now, but the emergence of people utilizing tech has reduced the need to operate UPS stores because people can order a truck to pick up their packages.