Posted on 04/19/2020 11:27:51 AM PDT by Stravinsky
New York (CNN Business) Dozens of grocery store workers have died from the coronavirus, despite masks, temperature checks and capacity restrictions to keep them safe. So far, supermarkets have resisted the most draconian policy: banning customers from coming inside.
However, some worker experts, union leaders and small grocery owners believe it has become too dangerous to let customers browse aisles, coming into close range with workers. Grocery stores are still flooded with customers, and experts say it's time for large chains to go "dark" to the public and convert to curbside pickup and home delivery for food and other essential goods.
"Careless customers" are "probably the biggest threat" to workers right now, according to Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers' union. The union said 85% of its grocery store member workers reported that customers are not practicing social distancing in stores.
"Anything that reduces the need for interaction with the public and allows for greater physical distancing will ultimately better protect grocery workers," said John Logan, professor and director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University. "Shuttering stores and repurposing them for pickup and delivery only would be a positive step."
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Just gas us all and at least we won’t have to live with F’n experts ever again.
Geesh
The gauntlet has been set. The virus is defeated
Now we have war between totalitarian leftists and freedom loving patriots
The former want to completely destroy the United States of America
The latter want us to quickly return back to our greatness of a month ago
Go ahead and we will never shop at your store again. See how that works for you and your employees.
CNN??? Zero credibility. None. Nada. Zilch.
Better solution: gas the ‘experts.’
“Dozens of grocery store workers have died from the coronavirus”
Name them, I want a list.
Otherwise, this is BS.
I am eagerly awaiting the day when I hear that experts are advising that experts are full of crap.
Remember: Dozens could be 24
Experts? I’ve been hearing from ‘experts’ my entire life.
Crap News Network trying to prolong the misery as much as possible
gotta make it look like Trump’s First Term is the end of the world
What experts?
"Careless customers" are "probably the biggest threat" to workers right now, according to Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers' union.
"Anything that reduces the need for interaction with the public and allows for greater physical distancing will ultimately better protect grocery workers," said John Logan, professor and director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University.
Other than first day i have never been in a crowded grocery store nor would i shop in one. I never shop in Wal-Mart, costco or big stores.
CNN = agenda.
How many grocery workers have died every year in the past two years?
Do you include the over 80Y/O greeters at WallyWorld...
Liars lie.
Pols use cherry-picked stats
CNN just pulls this stuff out of their....back pocket.
Yeah, but you have to play whack a mole. These bastards are about imprisoning and starving people.
Yes... sure .... there has been death and destruction in ALL of the grocery stores throughout the USA! /s
This is destroying their talking point. Why haven’t the grocery stores shut down? With such a contagious disease they should have been the first to go down. ... yet there they are months in to the WuHu-19 virus and they are standing strong stacking the shelves manning the registers!
FU, cnn.
Dozens out of how many? In a given year I bet that hundreds of grocery workers die.
The left wont be satisfied til cannibalism becomes a way of life in this country
Hand them a Face Mask on the way in and have then use Hand Sanitizer on the way in and out of the Store.
Must be why we don’t build Space Shuttles anymore. Too complicated.
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