Economy

What I'm seeing and hearing is people working a main job as well as a couple side gigs. These incomes fuel spending which fuels hiring. At some point demand for physical goods may slow, but services not so much. Restaurants, food delivery, supermarkets all on a roll.
And what I see in retail stores is the most marginal of marginal employees, often young, or quite old, none too swift or perhaps bright, foreign of all varieties - all of these in full overdrive to run the operation. And some stores, particularly closeout retailer or food operations, are poorly stocked. Marshalls is running on 1/5 of the shoe department they had 18 months ago, Burlington laden with leftover goods.