Grocery store workers are essential workers, but often have not been provided with appropriate protection during the current pandemic. This report describes efforts made by one union local to protect workers, including negotiated paid sick leave and specific safety practices. Union representatives from 319 stores completed 1612 in-store surveys to assess compliance between 23 April 2020 and 31 August 2020. Employers provided the union with lists of workers confirmed to have COVID-19 infection through 31 December 2020. Worker infection rates were calculated using store employees represented by the union as the denominator and compared to cumulative county infection rates; outcome was dichotomized as rates higher or lower than background rates. Restrictions on reusable bags and management enforcement of customer mask usage were most strongly associated with COVID-19 rates lower than rates in the surrounding county. Stores that responded positively to worker complaints also had better outcomes. The union is currently engaging to promote improved ventilation and vaccination uptake.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8107491 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10482911211015676 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Supermarkets, do they make the healthy choice the easy choice? A review of the healthfulness of the supermarket food environment.
Proc Nutr Soc
January 2025
College of Business, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
The over consumption of high fat, sugar, and salt foods increases population risk of overweight, obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases. The food environment mediates consumer food choices and thus plays an important role in diet quality and related health outcomes. The built food environment, where most people in high income countries access their food, has been found to be obesogenic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The effectiveness of tax increases in reducing tobacco consumption relies on the tobacco retailers and producers passing on increases to consumers (tax pass-through). Previous UK research on supermarkets found heterogeneous levels of tax pass-through across the market segments and price distribution of tobacco products. This study uses data from small retailers across the UK to assess whether recent tax changes have been passed on to consumers and if this varies across the price distribution, between countries of the UK and by neighbourhood deprivation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Surveillance of parasitic infections in market-sold aquatic products and knowledge and practice towards food-borne parasitic diseases among residents in Shanghai Municipality from 2020 to 2023].
Zhongguo Xue Xi Chong Bing Fang Zhi Za Zhi
July 2024
Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200336, China.
Objective: To investigate the prevalence of parasitic infections in market-sold aquatic products in Shanghai Municipality, and to understand the knowledge and practice towards food-borne parasitic diseases among residents, so as to provide insights into the surveillance and control of food-borne parasitic diseases.
Methods: Freshwater products, seawater products and pickled products were randomly obtained from agricultural trade markets, supermarkets, retail stores and restaurants in Huangpu, Putuo, Minhang and Qingpu districts of Shanghai Municipality from 2020 to 2023. Parasite metacercariae and larvae were detected in these aquatic products using pressing method, digestion method and the dissection method, and the detection of parasitic infection was compared in different types of aquatic products.
Exposure to Crime at Food Stores: Implications for Nutrition and Health among Black Americans.
J Community Health
January 2025
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Crime is a public health issue that disproportionately affects racially-marginalized populations. Studies have reported that food stores (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGrocery Shopping Under Simplified Marginal Value Theorem Predictions.
Hum Nat
January 2025
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Life Sciences / Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
This study examined whether supermarkets can be considered patches in the marginal value theorem (MVT) sense despite their particular features and whether they are models of human food foraging in resource-dense conditions. On the basis of the MVT, the quantitative relationship between gains in the Euro and patch residence time was modeled as an exponential growth function toward an upper asymptote, allowing the choice of an optimal strategy under diminishing returns. N = 61 participants were interviewed about their current shopping trip and contextual variables at a German supermarket and provided data to estimate relevant model parameters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!