A further 2.7 million employees who are set to receive a pay rise work in hospitality, retail and support services, such as cleaning.
■ People working in accommodation and food services, retail, administrative and support services are most likely to earn less than the living wage.
Potential reasons for the positive association between distance to retail stores or shopping support services and going out infrequently are as follows.
However, a lack of formal retail distribution infrastructure and marketing support services, among other factors, means that conventional solutions for market analysis will not work effectively.
A study by Diana Farrell and other McKinsey researchers found that of the five sectors that contributed most to American productivity growth between 2000 and 2003, three were refreshingly unglamorous: retailing, wholesaling and administrative and support services.
It includes not just writing software, designing computer systems and operating data centers, but also working at retail stores that sell technology, offering support services and doing CAD design.
Wal-Mart lent 4.56 billion rupees ($101 million at the time) to Cedar Support Services, the parent company of Bharti Retail, on March 29 , 2010
And this retail space has helped drive demand for all kinds of support services from utilities to maintenance.
In fact, for some brands, their retail stores will become central to their omni-channel customer experience delivering collection points, support services and more.
The support services sector also saw eight warnings, with seven in software and computing and six in general retailing.
