Dillard's, Inc. (DDS)

Department stores, 29,100 associates. Read October 3, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending January 31, 2026, filed March 27, 2026. Ranked 29 of the 75 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states the total by status and that 87% of full-time associates are in stores, so the store share is by count (a) and the rest by description (c).

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: 21% now, 24% at the end of 2027, 25% at the end of 2028, 25% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 25% desk work, 19% people work and 56% 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 75% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 12% becomes checking a model's work and 12% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

29,100 employees as of December 20, 2025 (stated). Not stated; a department store chain operating in the United States, with no count by country in the filing.

The filing: “As of December 20, 2025, the Company employed approximately 29,100 associates. Approximately 20,400 were full-time associates (greater than 35 hours per week), 6,400 were part-time associates (20-35 hours per week) and 2,300 were limited status associates (less than 20 hours per week).”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 29,100 associates: 20,400 full-time, 6,400 part-time and 2,300 limited status; none represented by a union; about 87% of full-time associates in the stores; about 75% of salaried store managers promoted from hourly store positions.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also General Merchandise 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.

• Walmart (WMT, 2,100,000 employees)21% now, 25% by 2028
• Target (TGT, 415,000 employees)21% now, 25% by 2028
• Costco (COST, 341,000 employees)21% now, 25% by 2028
• Dollar General (DG, 194,000 employees)21% now, 25% by 2028
• Dollar Tree (DLTR, 153,032 employees)21% now, 25% by 2028
• Macy's, Inc. (M, 90,134 employees)22% now, 25% by 2028
• Kohl's Corporation (KSS, 84,000 employees)21% now, 25% by 2028
• BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. (BJ, 35,000 employees)22% now, 25% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

2 sentences in the filing name AI. Two sentences: keeping pace with changing technology including AI in its information systems, and AI among the factors named in forward-looking statements.

• “Additionally, to keep pace with changing technology (including artificial intelligence), we must continuously provide for the design and implementation of new information technology systems and enhancements of our existing 10 Table of Contents systems.”
• “Representative examples of those factors include (without limitation) general retail industry conditions and macro-economic conditions including inflation, economic recession and changes in traffic at malls and shopping centers; economic and weather conditions for regions in which the Company's stores are located and the effect of these factors on the buying patterns of the Company's customers,...”

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 20252median 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

• No count by location beyond the full-time store share; the remainder is by description (c).
• CDI Contractors, the construction segment (4% of revenue), has no count and folds into the remainder under rule 5.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000028917-26-000006, 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.