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"The supply chain is a struggle," an Ikea employee told Insider. "A customer said we didn't have anything in stock because our company is socialist."

Has women leaving the workforce or is there something else? >> well, care is a huge part of it, both the childcare and care for elders and those with disabilities, the fact that we don't have paid leave but we are still in a pandemic where people are getting ill, that's another significant part of it. but it also is that women have long been dominated in the jobs that pay the least wages and the jobs that were the least fragile, and the jobs that required you to show up in person. and that story together, the fact that women are the majority of retail workers, the vast majority of health care ...

"Since the pandemic, everything has been worse," the employee told Insider. "I would ask anyone reading this to please be respectful to workers."

There were 11.4 million retail, food service, and cashier jobs in the US last year. "That's a lot of people getting stomped on," Steve Rowland said.

As a retail worker, Bennett Heyn thinks the stress of the pandemic and the tendency to panic-buy has made customer behavior worse than it was before.