“Grocery workers are beginning to die of coronavirus”, 06 April 2020

Major supermarket chains are beginning to report their first coronavirus-related employee deaths, leading to store closures and increasing anxiety among grocery workers …

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…

…Thousands of grocery employees have continued to report to work … with many reporting long shifts and extra workloads ... Many workers say they don’t have enough protective gear … Dozens of grocery workers have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent weeks.

Some companies have begun installing plexiglass sneeze guards at cash registers and requiring customers to stand six feet apart in line … Walmart and Kroger, are beginning to check employees’ temperatures at the beginning of each shift and will provide workers with gloves and masks.

The added precautions come amid a wave of strikes and petitions aimed at getting employers like Amazon, Trader Joe’s and the grocery delivery service Instacart, to take additional steps to protect workers…