Key point near the end of the article: > To Mr. Mandel, it’s not that e-commerce jobs are directly replacing traditional retail jobs. Rather, he describes a wo

Key point near the end of the article: > To Mr. Mandel, it’s not that e-commerce jobs are directly replacing traditional retail jobs. Rather, he describes a world in which some of what he calls “unpaid household labor” that we all do when we drive to the mall, park, shop and bring the goods home has been transferred into the labor market. So sure, if you only look at the paid jobs, under an e-commerce regime we have fewer paid jobs than under big box retail. But if you factor the previously unpaid labor, we're netting more jobs.