“You guys deserve a serious raise,” I told the worker who bagged my groceries. “Did you get one?”
She didn’t look up.
“We got a onetime bonus,” she eventually answered, her eyes still lowered. “It was a couple of hundred bucks.”
My first trip to Trader Joe’s since the start of California’s coronavirus lockdown had all the trappings of order and security. A polite line formed out front, with everyone keeping a respectful and socially distant 6 feet apart. No more than 50 people were allowed in the store at the same time. A worker squirted a dollop of sanitizer into the hands of each and every shopper entering the store. Another wiped down the handles of each shopping cart before use…..Yahoo.com
