"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.

Describes the kinds of work people do in the different departments of a supermarket.

#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?

Each title in this series follows a real person with learning disabilities through their daily work, looking at each of the tasks involved, and presents the qualifications and qualities necessary for the particular career. Information is presented in a magazine-style format. Australian information and addresses. For 14+.

A mother and child go through the supermarket choosing their groceries.

Little readers will learn all about what grocery store workers do and why they are important in our communities. Very simple text combined with correlating and colorful images will both inform and strengthen reading skills. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.

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.

An NPR Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * An Electric Literature Best Short Story Collection of the Year * Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize The "often hilarious and always compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning “American literary treasure” (Boston Globe), now in paperback-with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer-now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game-has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who “raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height.” (Washington Post) These collected short stories-most of them originally published in magazines including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, in the 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the present-are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today. In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked under the pressures of her life. And in several linked stories throughout, the relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in telling and often hilarious vignettes. Of their time and yet timeless, Wolitzer's stories zero in on the domestic sphere with wit, candor, grace, and an acutely observant eye. Brilliantly capturing the tensions and contradictions of daily life, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is full of heart and insight, providing a lens into a world that was often unseen at the time, and often overlooked now-reintroducing a beloved writer to be embraced by a whole new generation of readers.

★★★ 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! ★★★