Watch the retail vacancies on s1jobs and you’ll realise this is a fast-paced world full of opportunities to move up the career ladder.
It’s also one of the few sectors where you can start off in the stock room and end up in the boardroom.
Of course, it helps if you choose a path that helps get you boost your career quickly.
So to help you we’ve identified five of the fastest growing job sectors where your talents could take you right to the top.
All carat, no stick
Watches, jewellery, gold, diamonds and all kinds of sparkly stuff are suddenly big business – which explains why retailers such as Pandora, Thomas Sabo and Rox are all recruiting.
So if bling’s your thing, this sector is shining bright for you.
Silver surfers
To an ageing population, mobility scooters, hearing aids and stair lifts are becoming not rare luxuries but essential accessories.
Adapted baths, self-rising chairs and a host of other specialist products are all enjoying big sales as people live longer and want to enjoy life to the full.
If you want to work in a retail sector where your products make a positive difference to folks like Granny Ina, this is a rewarding area.
Bargain basement
They may sell food at rock bottom prices, but there’s nothing shabby about the discount grocery sector.
At the moment there are dozens of openings for assistant store managers, managers and area managers.
All of these important roles offer good salaries and excellent prospects for advancement.
Bottoms up
Surveys suggest we may be drinking less wine than we did five years ago (really?), but at the same time it seems we’ve developed a taste for the very best vintages and anything with bubbles.
As a direct result, sales of good plonk are fizzing.
If you have the palate, you could find yourself in demand with wine merchants and high-end supermarkets.
By royal command
Every time a small royal appears in a photograph, it sets off a frenzy for identikit clothing.
Most recently it was the turn of George – no not the Asda clothing range, the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s son, who marked his third birthday with four photos released by Kensington Palace.
In fact, the UK children’s wear market is worth a right royal £5.5 billion and is still growing as parents spend ever increasing amounts of money on their youngsters.
Suddenly, ‘never work with children’ sounds like very bad career advice.