Supermarket workers – The other frontline workers

European supermarket workers, have found themselves adjusting from a more functional role to a strategic one necessary for national survival as governments try to contain a disease that has infected tens of thousands across the Continent, which has become the new global epicentre.

POLITICO reports that grocery stores are among the only shops allowed to stay open in European countries that have gone under lockdown, aside from pharmacies, since they’re vital to feed the population amid uncertain times.

This new role for supermarket workers on the frontlines comes with many unfamiliar challenges and vulnerabilities.

POLITICO reports supermarket workers feel unprepared, unprotected and too overworked to deal with it. Now countries and those companies are scrambling to respond.

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