Why shelves are empty at the grocery store

Published: April 20, 2020, 8:15 p.m.

Laura Reiley explains the kinks in the food supply chain leaving grocery shelves bare. Grocery workers share their well-founded fears with Abha Bhattarai. Erin Patrick O\u2019Connor hears from sanitation workers on the pandemic\u2019s front line.
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The industry says we have enough food. Here\u2019s why some grocery store shelves are empty anyway.
The grocery workers on the front line of the pandemic never thought of their jobs as risky. Now, they\u2019re scared to go to work.
Sanitation workers are exposed to the coronavirus every day they go to work.
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