The coronavirus is killing food workers, and some customers aren’t helping them stay safe. onesarahjones reports
Miami, Florida — April 13: Lay Guzman stands behind a partial protective plastic screen and wears a mask and gloves as she works as a cashier at the Presidente Supermarket on April 13, 2020, in Miami, Florida. The employees at Presidente Supermarket, like the rest of America’s grocery-store workers, are on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, helping to keep the nation’s residents fed. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Ninety-nine percent of Michelle Lee’s customers are polite.
Customers like Lee’s may deserve some of the blame. A troubling 85 percent of workers said that customers aren’t practicing social distancing in stores, another 81 percent said customers are hoarding groceries, and 62 percent said they’ve been blamed by customers for product shortages they can’t prevent. Twenty-nine percent said that customers treated them poorly or very poorly on the job.
“I believe that at some point I’m probably going to get the virus,” she said. “I just hope and pray that if I get it, that it’s not deadly.”
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