I Work in a Supermarket

I Work in a Supermarket
Author: Clare Oliver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2004
Genre: Supermarkets
ISBN: 9780749656379

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This informative series looks at the working lives of various members of the community. This particular title explores the day to day running of a large store, from checkouts, to stacking shelves, to customer service and deliveries.

The Secret Life of Groceries

The Secret Life of Groceries
Author: Benjamin Lorr
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0553459414

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"A deeply curious and evenhanded report on our national appetites." --The New York Times In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store The miracle of the supermarket has never been more apparent. Like the doctors and nurses who care for the sick, suddenly the men and women who stock our shelves and operate our warehouses are understood as 'essential' workers, providing a quality of life we all too easily take for granted. But the sad truth is that the grocery industry has been failing these workers for decades. In this page-turning expose, author Benjamin Lorr pulls back the curtain on the highly secretive grocery industry. Combining deep sourcing, immersive reporting, and sharp, often laugh-out-loud prose, Lorr leads a wild investigation, asking what does it take to run a supermarket? How does our food get on the shelves? And who suffers for our increasing demands for convenience and efficiency? In this journey: We learn the secrets of Trader Joe's success from Trader Joe himself Drive with truckers caught in a job they call "sharecropping on wheels" Break into industrial farms with activists to learn what it takes for a product to earn certification labels like "fair trade" and "free range" Follow entrepreneurs as they fight for shelf space, learning essential tips, tricks, and traps for any new food business Journey with migrants to examine shocking forced labor practices through their eyes The product of five years of research and hundreds of interviews across every level of the business, The Secret Life of Groceries is essential reading for those who want to understand our food system--delivering powerful social commentary on the inherently American quest for more and compassionate insight into the lives that provide it.

Supermarket

Supermarket
Author: Bobby Hall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982127155

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The stunning debut novel from one of the most creative artists of our generation, Bobby Hall, a.k.a. Logic. “Bobby Hall has crafted a mind-bending first novel, with prose that is just as fierce and moving as his lyrics. Supermarket is like Naked Lunch meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest—if they met at Fight Club.”—Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player One Flynn is stuck—depressed, recently dumped, and living at his mom’s house. The supermarket was supposed to change all that. An ordinary job and a steady check. Work isn’t work when it’s saving you from yourself. But things aren’t quite as they seem in these aisles. Arriving to work one day to a crime scene, Flynn’s world collapses as the secrets of his tortured mind are revealed. And Flynn doesn’t want to go looking for answers at the supermarket. Because something there seems to be looking for him. A darkly funny psychological thriller, Supermarket is a gripping exploration into madness and creativity. Who knew you could find sex, drugs, and murder all in aisle nine?

Supermarket USA

Supermarket USA
Author: Shane Hamilton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300232691

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America fought the Cold War in part through supermarkets—and the food economy pioneered then has helped shape the way we eat today Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American‑style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how that has shaped our current food system. The widespread appeal of supermarkets as weapons of free enterprise contributed to a "farms race" between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers vied to show that their contrasting approaches to food production and distribution were best suited to an abundant future. In the aftermath of the Cold War, U.S. food power was transformed into a global system of market power, laying the groundwork for the emergence of our contemporary world, in which transnational supermarkets operate as powerful institutions in a global food economy.

Supermarket Employment

Supermarket Employment
Author: Katherine L. Hughes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1999
Genre: School-to-work transition
ISBN:

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Oracle at the Supermarket

Oracle at the Supermarket
Author: Steven Starker
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1412830249

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"Oracle carefully explores the dangers and benefits of diet and exercise books, sex manuals, and self-actualization schemes. It is a timely and fascinating work, and will be of great interest to health-care providers and thoughtful consumers." --Joseph D. Matarazzo,American Psychological Association

Working at a Grocery Store

Working at a Grocery Store
Author: Katie Marsico
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1602794146

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Working at a Grocery Store introduces young readers to many careers available at a grocery store, from stocker to store manager. Colorful sidebars encourage young children to think, create, guess, and ask questions about a career working in a Grocery Store.

The Wide, Wide World

The Wide, Wide World
Author: Susan Warner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 710
Release: 1852
Genre: American fiction
ISBN:

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Cast and Customers

Cast and Customers
Author: Mattioli Jr.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2020-10-11
Genre:
ISBN:

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★★★ HOW DO YOU FACE CHANGES? ★★★ ★ What if you suddenly had to move from a place to another because of your job? Maybe you wouldn't like it. ★ What if, instead, one day you got a notice that would put under question your whole life? Don't you think that you'd be going through a shock? Because of a notice, indeed, Leopoldo Canapone's life... Got upside down! Before it all happened, he was a dreamer. ★★★ He was a young boy, and acting was his passion. He shared it with his friend "Pumpkin," a childhood friend with whom he grew up with. They lived on the same landing and studied acting in the same theater. But then, a surprise nobody was expecting and couldn't define messed their plans up. ★★★ In a very short time, their lives totally changed. Life's not always monotone! They grew up, changed, and lost each other. Each one of us, sooner or later, will find himself facing something new, a new beginning or experience. Who says we'll necessarily enjoy it? ★ In Canappa, as the colleagues called it, an opportunity showed up. Leonardo didn't ever want to catch it, but it gave him the possibility to start over, despite the usual injustices and improprieties that newbies have to deal with, when entering the working environment. ★ Yes, it happened... eventually. Leopoldo Canapone and his friend Pumpkin ended up in the clutches of the Adult World, an event that they had always tried to delay. You'll know that in our society, it's very hard to find a job, it might even be impossible; that's why those two dreamers would have never thought that some common employment applications sent by chance could have been approved. This is how they started working in two different branches of a Supermarket, dealing with a new environment and leaving their biggest dream behind, thinking about leaving some space for the life everyone wanted them to live. ★★★ Dreams are expensive, and sometimes this is why we neglect them, without knowing they could have come true, with a little fight. ★★★ In this book, you'll find out something more about yourself, and you'll get to know a real truth through Leopoldo Canapone's and his friends' story: the world around you will never help you be who you want to be, but you'll always have to work hard to find your place in it. Leopoldo Canapones' adventures can be inspiring, a new way to understand better who you are and the world surrounding you. Cast and Customers - Working in a Supermarket will give you the chance to live in the first person, but not personally, uncomfortable and fun situations, from which you'll eventually learn something. Leopoldo finds out that working in sales is like acting: he needs to wear a mask and smile no matter what; what can you learn from his life? ★★★ BUY NOW Cast and Customers - Working in a Supermarket, and fill downtimes learning more about life through the power of words! ★★★

Ask a Manager

Ask a Manager
Author: Alison Green
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0399181822

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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together