VIDEO: 6 Tips For Staying Safe While Grocery Shopping
4 years, 8 months ago

VIDEO: 6 Tips For Staying Safe While Grocery Shopping

NPR  

VIDEO: 6 Tips For Staying Safe While Grocery Shopping NPR via YouTube Don't see the video? But many people are wondering how they can stay safe while in the store during the coronavirus pandemic — and how best to handle their groceries once they get them home. That's why we asked infectious disease, virology and food safety experts for their advice about safe grocery shopping. This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a woman ended up in the emergency room after disinfecting her groceries in a solution of bleach, vinegar and hot water.

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Opinion: Grocery stores used to be my happy place. Then they started locking up the detergent
1 year, 5 months ago

Opinion: Grocery stores used to be my happy place. Then they started locking up the detergent

LA Times  

People shop at a supermarket in Alhambra in June, 2022. Asking clerks to retrieve detergent and baby formula is demoralizing enough, but businesses are implementing more severe security measures that erode customers’ spirits and our social fabric, even though it’s unclear whether shoplifting has become the national crisis that some retailers claim. Sociologist Eric Klinenberg similarly argues, “Social infrastructure is …

Coronavirus: Is shopping in stores safe during the pandemic?
4 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus: Is shopping in stores safe during the pandemic?

India Today  

There are ways to reduce risk, but health experts advise avoiding it when possible. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says holiday shopping in crowded stores is a “higher risk” activity and that people should limit any in-person shopping, including at supermarkets. Instead, the agency recommends shopping online, visiting outdoor markets or using curbside pickup, where workers bring …

Grocery Workers Keep America Fed, While Fearing For Their Own Safety
4 years, 9 months ago

Grocery Workers Keep America Fed, While Fearing For Their Own Safety

NPR  

Grocery Workers Keep America Fed, While Fearing For Their Own Safety Enlarge this image toggle caption Charlie Riedel/AP Charlie Riedel/AP Not all Americans can stay home during the pandemic. Food Lion is also trying to hire more workers to help with the crunch, and like many stores they're offering extra "appreciation pay" during the crisis, though Ham wouldn't say how …

How to minimise your coronavirus risk while shopping at the supermarket
4 years, 9 months ago

How to minimise your coronavirus risk while shopping at the supermarket

ABC  

Going out into the world to buy essentials is one of the few things we're still encouraged to leave the house to do — and a trip to a supermarket to buy food is, for most people, unavoidable. Supermarkets have increased efforts to sanitise everything from trolleys to conveyor belts, but Dr Sheel said the need to wash your hands …

COVID-19: Is your trip to the in-house grocery store paved with safety measures?
4 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19: Is your trip to the in-house grocery store paved with safety measures?

The Hindu  

Even where whole populations are holed up in their burrows, following lockdown rules to a T, people may still have to surface now and then for “life-sustainers” – in plain terms, those beans and beets and a caboodle of other things generically called “food items”. However, this advantage would amount to just a hill of shrivelled-up beans if precautions are …

Nervous about grocery shopping? Here’s how to get what you need faster
4 years, 9 months ago

Nervous about grocery shopping? Here’s how to get what you need faster

LA Times  

One thing you can do to follow coronavirus guidelines while grocery shopping is to get in and out quickly and efficiently. The approach I’ve been taking is the one I’ve trained test kitchen assistants over the years to practice: Before heading out, make a thorough list of everything needed according to where the items are located in the store and …

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