Retail just changed. Forever…

I’ve written regularly, and recently, about the power of growth.

We are — whether you like it or not — in a world that continues to speed up.

As Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner likes to say, a couple of hundred years ago, you could tell not only what your kids would do, but what their kids would do.

If you were born a farmer, you’d stay a farmer… and so would your kids and grandkids.

These days, jobs seem to have a half-life that continues to shorten.

That’s different from rising unemployment, by the way, because new jobs are also being created.

And at a faster rate, too. As of the most recent employment stats, there have never been more Australians in work!

Still, the jobs themselves change.

So do the businesses…