A day on the job should never lead to harassment or violent assault. But more and more, retail workers are finding themselves victims of violence, or even murder, as they simply try to put in an honest day’s work to provide for themselves and their families.
Terrible workplace massacres make the headlines, such as the 2022 Tops supermarket shooting in Buffalo where 10 people were killed, including four workers, or the 2021 shooting at a Long Island Stop & Shop store where one employee was killed and two others were wounded. But retail workers face harassment and violence that the public never hears about on a much more frequent basis.