#groceryworkers

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Demand for hazard pay spreads on West Coast. Kroger threatens closures

By Scott Scheffer

There are corporate-sponsored billboards atop buildings and along the highways, from Times Square in New York City to the freeways of Los Angeles, thanking and honoring frontline workers for putting themselves in harm’s way during the pandemic. But the lofty messages lose all meaning alongside the actual treatment of those workers by their capitalist bosses.

[midnightfunk]

Voices From the Aisles

These workers have returned to the front lines every day, committed to feeding their families — and their country.

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union reported in November that at least 109 grocery workers in the union had died from covid-19, and 17,400 had been exposed or infected.
The health risks are compounded by combative customers, who have made grocery store workers the easy targets of their own daily frustrations and anxieties. Stores have become battlegrounds for anti-mask standoffs and disinfectant hoarding that cashiers and other workers have had to moderate.

[retailworkerproblems]

Stores that it’s acceptable to go to during the coronavirus:

Pharmacies

Grocery Stores

Curbside pickup for local restaurants to support their business

This should not have to be said, but unfortunately people are doing it anyway: please, please DO NOT go to stores just to walk around. Go into the store, get what you need, and then leave.

[stancheslovez]

Today is just...

Customer: *picks up bottle of spray sanatizer* What's this for? Me: That's for spraying the carts to sanatizer them. Customer: *prociedes to spray bag of oranges* Me: Sir...that's for the carts... Customer: I know.

[mooneyezstargazer]

[battybyebitez]

A GUY IN A FULL ASS WIZARD COSTUME STAFF AND EVERYTHING JUST CANE INTO MY STORE

[robbmommaerts]

A NEW and fun graphic I put together with appreciation and THANKS to all the grocery store workers (as well as food prep, transportation and delivery crews) all over the world during this weird time. Thanks for working long hours, stocking shelves, preparing food, having to handle money, deal with stressed and hoarding customers, all while putting their own health at risk. #groceryworkers #grocers #covid-19 #coronavirus #warriors #health #viking #nutrition #health #warrior https://www.instagram.com/p/B-k-rusl8T5/?igshid=znkp0zqptqog

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Maryland grocery worker who wanted to help seniors dies of Covid-19

By Sharon Black

Twenty-seven-year-old Leilani Jordan told her mother, Zenobia Shepard, “Mommy, I’m going to work because no one else is going to help the senior citizens get their groceries.”

Jordan worked at the Giant Food at the Campus Way South store.  She was a greeter. Her mother described to local TV station WUSA9 how Jordan had worked at the Giant store for six years as part of a disability program. “She loved her little job,” and “She did whatever they needed to help people.”

In late March, Leilani Jordan became ill, was eventually diagnosed as being positive for Covid-19 and was hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center. Before she was placed on a ventilator, she called her mother, telling her, “Mommy, I can barely breathe.”  On April 1 she died.