Caleres, Inc. (CAL)

Footwear retailer and brand wholesaler, half part-time. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending January 31, 2026, filed April 2, 2026. Ranked 23 of the 199 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 10,000 employees, half part-time, in a footwear retail chain and a wholesale brand portfolio with nothing counted by segment, so the split is by description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 25% now, 32% at the end of 2027, 34% at the end of 2028, 34% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 34% desk work, 27% people work and 39% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 66% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 20% becomes checking a model's work and 13% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

10,000 employees as of January 31, 2026 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; the United States is 94% of revenue, with 22 union warehouse employees in Canada and factories abroad.

The filing: “As of January 31, 2026, we had approximately 10,000 employees, including 5,000 full-time and 5,000 part-time.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 10,000 employees, 5,000 full-time and 5,000 part-time; no U.S. union employees and about 22 unionized warehouse employees in Canada; stores, distribution centers, offices and factories named as workplaces without counts.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Shoe Retailers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• NIKE, Inc. (NKE, 73,000 employees)20% now, 30% by 2028
• Genesco Inc. (GCO, 16,000 employees)24% now, 30% by 2028
• Designer Brands Inc. (DBI, 13,000 employees)24% now, 31% by 2028
• Crocs, Inc. (CROX, 8,010 employees)19% now, 24% by 2028
• Steven Madden, Ltd. (SHOO, 6,300 employees)26% now, 36% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI and machine learning among risks, as rapid change it may be unable to adapt to in its supply chain, distribution channels and point of sale.

• “We may be unable to quickly adapt to rapid change resulting from artificial intelligence and other machine learning technologies that may result in changes to our supply chain, distribution channels, and point-of-sale capabilities.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20240median 4
• Fiscal 20251median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The Index's 5,000 is the full-time count; rule 2 takes the stated total of 10,000 including 5,000 part-time.
• No count by segment or kind of location; the split between stores and wholesale is by description.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000014707-26-000053, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.