![Trader Joe’s Put Workers Like Me at Serious Risk During the Pandemic Trader Joe’s Put Workers Like Me at Serious Risk During the Pandemic](https://realnews.today/media/1280px-Trader_Joes-310x168.jpg)
Central to Trader Joe’s corporate image is the idea that it is a vaguely progressive alternative to corporate grocery chains. But my time working at Trader Joe’s during the COVID-19 pandemic exposed how little the chain cared about the safety of workers like me.