Good morning everyone welcome back to wake up with chatter
on this friday with Ariel Hicks and a baker machado.
Let's take a look at some of the other business headlines. We're watching today.
Ariel,
a lot of grocery stores making some adjustments as Covid continues to run amok here.
So what's changing?
Well baker, many grocery stores throughout the U. S.
Are cutting hours and services as the
omicron variant continues to affect its many employees
now,
stores have been forced to manage with a limited amount of
workers filling in positions with 10th or even corporate employees.
Major name brand stores like Kroger's have even begun
enduring strikes as 8400 unionized workers at King's superstores
in Colorado push for increased benefits and higher wages.
The timing couldn't be worse for some stores as they were on
their way back to normalcy before the american wave hit in december.
I think there's a number of things that are
making it very difficult for these grocery stores.
You have the omicron wave, you have supply chain issues.
Uh you have uh different types of items that we
find every single day not being on the shelves.
Just yesterday, we were talking about formula not being available at this point.
So I think everyone's trying to look for an end in sight.
I've seen that there are people trying to bond together shipping
certain supplies to other locations just so someone can get a handle
on formula or on bagels whatever that may be at this
particular point but it's very tough for the workers to who are
putting in all of these hours at this point and are just exhausted, uh, you know,
trying to just keep the grocery stores afloat.
Yes, so true.
And look,
the ceo of Albertans even saying that they still anticipating another 4
to 6 weeks of Rocky Nous when it comes to supply chain issues
at the grocery stores.
So definitely something to watch.
And, yeah, your heart just breaks for those workers.