Pandemic crushes global supply chains & workers
In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit ‘record’. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red ‘Everything Must Go!’ posters and posted it on TikTok in October. “Slowly losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the store in Delano, California, shut for good, one of 156 J.C. Penneys across the United States to close since June of this year. Since being laid off, she’s applied for a couple of roles such as counselling kids and delivering flowers but has yet to hear back.