My partner worked in a unionized grocery co-operative during the pandemic, and the frontline employees there received hazard pay of up to $5 more per hour. This benefit did not last long, but it was significant for us. Those early months of the pandemic in the grocery store were wild. Everyone was so stressed and afraid, employees and customers alike. Customers were desperate for canned beans and other shelf-stable staples and bulk goods (he was the bulk supervisor). Plus there was so much we didn't yet know or understand about covid. As a precaution, there was a period where he would come home at the end of the workday, strip his clothes off at the door into the dirty laundry, and immediately shower.
It’s about time that somebody made the public think about Grocery Store workers and what they do, and I do wonder what the thumb sucking pigs who are doing all they can to wreck the lives of workers and all Americans ever think about the people who work long and hard to make sure there is not only plenty for the customers but chairs for cashiers and everyone else in the store. Thank you.
I love the quoted sentence here, “ I urge my college-educated peers to abandon the idea that our degrees entitle us to live lives of dignity denied to others.” This sounds like a very good book by an insightful writer.
I'm curious how many other New Englanders immediately recognized the lead image as a Market Basket by the salmon-orange checkerboard floors? Anyway as a fellow grocery store obsessive I enjoyed this, thank you!
I also live in a "right to work" state, North Carolina, and have heard horror stories about one local grocery, in particular, where I rarely shop now. It's a cutthroat biz, but the local Aldi pays its hardworking clerks 30% more and they are allowed to sit while they scan.
My partner worked in a unionized grocery co-operative during the pandemic, and the frontline employees there received hazard pay of up to $5 more per hour. This benefit did not last long, but it was significant for us. Those early months of the pandemic in the grocery store were wild. Everyone was so stressed and afraid, employees and customers alike. Customers were desperate for canned beans and other shelf-stable staples and bulk goods (he was the bulk supervisor). Plus there was so much we didn't yet know or understand about covid. As a precaution, there was a period where he would come home at the end of the workday, strip his clothes off at the door into the dirty laundry, and immediately shower.
It’s about time that somebody made the public think about Grocery Store workers and what they do, and I do wonder what the thumb sucking pigs who are doing all they can to wreck the lives of workers and all Americans ever think about the people who work long and hard to make sure there is not only plenty for the customers but chairs for cashiers and everyone else in the store. Thank you.
beautiful, looking forward to reading the book
I love the quoted sentence here, “ I urge my college-educated peers to abandon the idea that our degrees entitle us to live lives of dignity denied to others.” This sounds like a very good book by an insightful writer.
I'm curious how many other New Englanders immediately recognized the lead image as a Market Basket by the salmon-orange checkerboard floors? Anyway as a fellow grocery store obsessive I enjoyed this, thank you!
I also live in a "right to work" state, North Carolina, and have heard horror stories about one local grocery, in particular, where I rarely shop now. It's a cutthroat biz, but the local Aldi pays its hardworking clerks 30% more and they are allowed to sit while they scan.