The Sobeys grocery store chain has been named by an American-based multi-national business
magazine as among the world’s 25 heroes of the pandemic. In its list, Fortune magazine has named grocers to the elite group. The publication says grocers have emerged as vital lifelines for panicked populations, even as their staff became essential frontline workers at the risk of exposure.
Fortune cited several grocers for taking extra steps, including Sobeys for increasing workers’s pay and medical leave; acts it says helped nudge giants like Walmart and Target to follow suit.