Genesco Inc. (GCO)

Mall shoe stores, mostly part-time. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending January 31, 2026, filed March 25, 2026. Ranked 36 of the 161 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 16,000 employees, 70% part-time and mostly retail-based, in the Journeys, Schuh and Johnston and Murphy store groups, so shoe retailers carry the workforce.

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: 24% now, 29% at the end of 2027, 30% at the end of 2028, 30% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 30% desk work, 28% people work and 43% 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 70% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 17% 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

16,000 employees as of January 31, 2026 (stated). Not stated alone; about 13,000 of 16,000 (81%) are in the United States and Canada and 3,000 in the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland.

The filing: “We had approximately 16,000 employees as of January 31, 2026, with approximately 13,000 employed in the United States and Canada, and approximately 3,000 in the U.K. and the ROI.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 70% part-time and 30% full-time; 13,000 in the United States and Canada, 3,000 in the U.K. and Ireland; the majority retail-based and customer-facing; no union figure stated.

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
• Designer Brands Inc. (DBI, 13,000 employees)24% now, 31% by 2028
• Crocs, Inc. (CROX, 8,010 employees)19% now, 24% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

12 sentences in the filing name AI. Twelve sentences: the company is transitioning IT services, including automation and AI, to third-party providers, says its agreements govern their appropriate use of AI, and names evolving AI laws among the costs and limits on how providers process its data.

• “The services being transitioned include infrastructure, networking and technology operations, automation and AI, application development and support, quality assurance and testing, service desk operations, security operations support, and compliance support.”
• “Although our agreements with third-party service providers include contractual provisions designed to protect privacy, security, and the appropriate use of AI, we have limited ability to directly control the practices of third parties.”
• “Evolving laws and standards governing AI may impose new contractual, technical, and reporting requirements that increase costs and limit how third-party service providers can process our data.”
• “The rapid evolution and increased adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence ("AI") is further increasing risks in this area, including by making fraud detection more difficult, particularly with detection devices that use voice recognition or authentication.”
• “The utilization, expansion and management of machine learning and other types of artificial intelligence in our business could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.”

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 20236median 1
• Fiscal 202410median 4
• Fiscal 202512median 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 segment or kind of work: the stores lead by the filing's description, with distribution and wholesale by description and revenue (c).
• The U.S. share is not stated alone.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-123492, 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.