#groceryworkers

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

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.

[hollywoodumc-harmonytolucalake]

Happy Labor Day to all of our hardworking "sheroes and heroes" who have helped get us through the last 18 months. . . . #LaborDay #ThankYou #grateful #essentialserviceworkers #WeApplaud #esstinalworkers #covi̇d19 #ems #firefighter #police #deliveryservice #hospital #doctors #nurses #grocerystore #groceryworkers #community #harmonytl #HollywoodUMC #Hollywood #HUMC #affirmingchurch #inclusivechurch #allarewelcome https://www.instagram.com/p/CTe5bYJg1vc/?utm_medium=tumblr

[midnightfunk]

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.

[grocery-n-handyman]

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[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]

[spooderjuixe]

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

[sleeping-satan]

I started working in grocery

[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.

[winterluna]

TO FUCKING BAD IF YOU HAVE TO WAIT IN LINE TO CHECK OUT! IM RISKING MY HEALTH BECAUSE I CANT AFFORD TO BE ON UNEMPLOYMENT!

[hollywoodumc-harmonytolucalake]

Happy Labor Day, and a special THANK YOU to all of our hardworking "sheroes and heroes" who have served our communities throughout the past several years. . . . #LaborDay #ThankYou #grateful #essentialserviceworkers #WeApplaud #esstinalworkers #covi̇d19 #ems #firefighter #police #deliveryservice #hospital #doctors #nurses #grocerystore #groceryworkers #community #harmonytl #HollywoodUMC #Hollywood #HUMC #affirmingchurch #inclusivechurch #allarewelcome https://www.instagram.com/p/CiIK1qcuuIB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[maddockandassociates]

City of Seattle Announces the Grocery Employee Hazard Pay Ordinance to take Effect February 3, 2021.

https://durkan.seattle.gov/2021/01/city-of-seattle-announces-the-grocery-employee-hazard-pay-ordinance-to-take-effect-february-3-2021/

[dishpaldelivery]

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[marginaliaandspines]

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

Benjamin Lorr

🔥 “Our society is awash with founders, all listening to the same leadership podcasts, doing the same kettlebell lunges to improve grip and leg strength at the same time, then dissolving identical Tim Ferriss-approved muscle-building complexes into their post-workout shakes to transform their previously similar mesomorph bodies into something even more metabolically equivalent. All while making parallel grandiose-style projections about their own app, disruption, or innovation whereby their personal self-interest miraculously aligns with the interest of society writ large and places them as CEO/founder/servant-leader on the very prow of the vessel of civilization. It is lunacy. But somehow it is our lunacy, the ascendant lunacy of my generation, which has put IPO-chasing founders in the same category we once reserved for poets, statesmen, and philosophers.” (66)

“Over the last ten years industry turnover in trucking has ranged between 95 to 112 percent [...] the trucking industry has figured out not only how to make humans replaceable but also how to make money off their replacement. The labor shortage is profitable. Recruiting rapaciously and dishonestly, convincing recruits to take out lines of credit for the opportunity, and then paying those new recruits the lowest possible wages for the labor—they call these ‘training rates’—all work synergistically. I am told by various industry observers that the trucking industry earns its highest profits on student drivers. They then use the accrued debt as a tool to force the driver to work at these rates far longer than they would otherwise.” (98)

“At the grocery store we not only buy food to taste but also to demonstrate taste. Which is to say, our discernment. And in this way, it is like all-American consumption, deeply attached to our sense of self. We buy things to stake claims, to demonstrate autonomy, and to asset our unique experience.” (202-203)

“...from misery, an industry was born. It turns out for as yet biologically unexplained reasons, a female shrimp who loses a single eyeball gets fast-tracked through puberty, her ocular loss unleashing a cascade of hormones that begets ovaries in as little as three days. This was not predictable, nor does it fit some grand anatomical theory of shrimp endocrinology, but it is very real. And some supremely attentive farmer noticed it and began snipping eyeballs off by hand in an attempt to replicate it [...] pushing shrimp aquaculture into a new age.” (226-227)

“If [Patima Tungpuchayakul a.k.a P’Aon] didn’t repeatedly explain how terrified she was, I would take P’Aon to be fearless. [...] It is the type of swallowed fear, or perhaps tolerated fear, that teaches a lesson about the difference between bravery and bravado, between persistence and confidence, about how completing difficult tasks has less to do with complicating a situation with reams of affirmations, and more about starting with whatever is in front of you and accepting there is always more.” (246-247)

“Too often during media storms, I’ve heard people say, let’s boycott this product. Look at what happens when abused children get pushed out of labor markets. They typically don’t suddenly find better jobs. They get pushed further underground. In my research, I’ve found this often means going into sex work… What you in the West have to realize is that the entire narrative is backwards. In trafficking, the media focuses on why and where poor people get into difficult situations. But maybe we should be looking at why they are poor to begin with?” (254)

“Convenience is the great gift the grocery store gives to the consumer. Efficiency its great technique for delivering it. But when you make convenience itself an end point, what then?” (267)

“The adage is all wrong: it’s not that we are what we eat, it’s that we eat the way we are. Retail grocery is a reflection. What people call the supply chain is a long, interconnected network of human beings working on other humans’ behalf. It responds to our actions, not our pieties; and in its current form it demands convenience and efficiency starting from the checkout counter on down. The result is both incredible beyond words—abundance, wish fulfillment, and low price—and as cruel and demeaning as Tun-Lin voluntarily choosing to return to those [forced labor] boats. To me this is as hopeful as it is depressing. We are in dialogue with this world, not at its mercy.” (269)