1)GROCERY WORKERS AS FIRST RESPONDERS? Albertsons Companies, which owns grocery chains like Safeway, Acme Markets and others, is partnering with the United Food and Commercial Workers in a push to have grocery store workers

2) temporarily designated as either "extended first responders" or "emergency personnel," Áine Cain and Hayley Peterson report for Business Insider.

The union said the title would make grocery workers a priority for Covid-19 testing, as well as personal protective equipment

3) like masks and gloves. Albertsons and the UFCW bought an advertisement in the New York Times pushing for the designation. @politico