Posted on 04/06/2020 6:04:14 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Major supermarket chains are beginning to report their first coronavirus-related employee deaths, leading to store closures and increasing anxiety among grocery workers as the pandemic intensifies across the country.
A Trader Joe’s worker in Scarsdale, N.Y., a greeter at a Giant store in Largo, Md., and two Walmart employees from the same Chicago-area store have died of covid-19, the disease the novel coronavirus causes, in recent days, the companies confirmed Monday.
Though more than 40 states have ordered nonessential businesses to close and told residents to stay home to stem the spread of the virus, supermarkets are among the retailers that remain open.
Industry experts say the rise of worker infections and deaths will likely have a ripple effect on grocers’ ability to retain and add new workers at a time when they’re looking to rapidly hire thousands of temporary employees.
Walmart, the nation’s largest grocer, is hiring 150,000 workers, while Kroger is adding more than 10,000.
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They need protections.
They should be wearing masks.
They should all implement the plexiglas barriers.
They should all be given vitamin D, zinc and quercetin supplements.
The Trump Pill should be available to all such workers.
when are our Trump checks coming?
They should also require customers to wear masks.
They can hand them out at the door to customers that don’t bring their own.
You don’t even have to look at who the mother...who the lousy guys that posted these articles are.
slimes, wapost, msnbc, cnn..and the rest of the crowd.
I am thankful that these folks are showing up.
They’re all kids in Shoprite near me and they are reducing the number of people that are allowed in at once and GOD WHAT DO WE WANT IN THE COUNTRY NOW? ZERO RISK FOR ANYTHING?!!?!?
Stay the #### home in your basement until you die and you’ll be safe.
Unless the house collapses or there’s a nuclear war, or asteroid. And some other things.
Given that more than 10,000 people have died so far from it, some of them are bound to be grocery store employees. Before this pandemic, Walmart and Kroger employed 2m people in total. I’d expect a dozen or more casualties from these companies.
...one wonders is the risk is the job or the...
...state?
They did not necessarily get exposed at work. They may have but then again they may not have.
I am an “essential worker” driving many sick folks around in a car so don’t think I am being callous.
If anyone does not want to take these risks they are free to quit and take unemployment. I could have but chose not too. It’s a free country.
I think that was addressed at the news conference today, but to be candid, I didn’t pay attention to the answer part.
Payment Protection Act money to be issued starting tomorrow.
This false story has only one purpose.
To scare grocery workers away from their job hoping to crash the grocery industry.
Did the Bezos compost ever report any deaths from the flu the past two years? This is not intended to inform, but to manipulate.
Cut off access to grocery stores and full scale riots will follow.
Our “MSM” has an agenda, and I’d like to know where they think their authority arises to push it.
yep - the corrupt socialist media and their ChiCom masters are playing their new card - to shut down the grocery stores and create more panic.
PPP checks to begin to be issued tomorrow.
that’s on the 3rd business day following applications.
Not bad, huh?
Trump Time.
the press would be dropping like flies too if they weren’t all on hydroxychloroquine
April 9th.
When have we heard a peep out of anyone for grocery store workers who die from the seasonal flu, and have been doing so for decades?
Good Fiord.
Bingo.
Must crash economy to destroy Trump.
These people are disgusting.
The major story should be that hydroxychloroquine treatment appears to be effective. This would give people hope and it is true.
“Grocery Workers Are Beginning To Die Of Coronavirus”
Sad, but expected. Gonna get tough for the FluBros as the lines to get into Walmart and other grocery stores start to lengthen and lengthen.
As it is, my brother (a FluBro) just had a Walmart order canceled, due to them being ‘too busy’. Obviously more likely short-staffed.
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