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Retail workers are really copping it…

With the Coronavirus epidemic becoming more and more serious, people have been taking to their local supermarkets and stores to panic buy and vent their frustration at the whole situation. As a result, retail works have been truly copping it over the past couple weeks, with customers going crazy over essential items like toilet paper, pasta, and whatever else has been flying off the shelves. The latest incident has seen a Woolies employee in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula stabbed by a customer in a terrifying escalation of violence.

The staff member is said to have been collecting trolleys in the car park when he was approached by an unknown man and stabbed to the lower body. Paramedics were immediately called to the scene and the man was airlifted to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. A 25 year old man has been arrested in relation to the incident.

The incident comes after a Coles employee was struck with a stick by a 43 year old man in Melbourne and a staff member copped verbal abuse after not giving into a customers demands to give them extra toilet paper. Wild stuff…

Just a special PSA to those out there who are hitting up their local supermarkets or retail stores during this crisis, try and take it easy on workers. They’re dealing with a lot of scared individuals during this crisis, and the last thing they need is to cop abuse whilst just trying to do their jobs in these trying times…