Working For An Essential Business
Kelci Crandall works everyday at local Target during COVID-19
Target employees and LHS juniors Kayleigh Trokey, Ella Albrecht and Kelci Crandall scan and restock items in order to prepare for the next day of work. “We close an hour early now so we can stock our shelves and clean for the rest of the night. We have a line of people everyday right at the open in order to get the essential items,” Crandall said.
April 23, 2020
When COVID-19 hit our community, many teenagers lost their jobs at local businesses. However, for very few students at Liberty, COVID-19 brought a new job experience like no other.
Junior Kelci Crandall works every day at the nearby Target in Lake St. Louis. According to Crandall, the general atmosphere of the store has changed tremendously since the pandemic has occurred.
“Our store follows social distancing by placing titles 6 feet apart from one another for customers standing in line. We also clean the carts along with counting and managing the number of guests that walk in and out of the building,” Crandall said.
Working a few hours each day, Crandall’s responsibility at the store is to work the cash register or help with drive-ups.
“Drive ups have been crazier than ever since the pandemic started. In my opinion, the customers are stocking up on way too much stuff,” Crandall said.
As an employee during a pandemic, Crandall has received criticism from numerous customers involving the situation.
“I think customers need to stay at home and stop buying nonessential things. I feel a good portion of our customers are overreacting. We have a line of people everyday before we open to get toilet paper,” Crandall said.
During an unsettling and frantic time, for the sake of our retail employees and community, it is important that we buy essential goods only when needed.
![“I’m very upset, it would’ve been fine if it was [canceled] earlier, but we had just gotten into the pits (they opened at 8:30) and started working. I was hoping for a good competition and to be in the pits for the first time, but now all of my plans have changed really suddenly,” Abby Shields said.](https://lhstoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CORONA-CANCELS-COMP-475x267.png)
![“I’m very upset, it would’ve been fine if it was [canceled] earlier, but we had just gotten into the pits (they opened at 8:30) and started working. I was hoping for a good competition and to be in the pits for the first time, but now all of my plans have changed really suddenly,” Abby Shields said.](https://lhstoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CORONA-CANCELS-COMP-300x169.png)
