Pandemic crushes global supply chains, workers at both ends

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 videos as she and her co-workers slid down a metal shoot (technically meant for empty boxes) in the store room, their heads falling back laughing, and posted them on TikTok. Another, uploaded on 13th October, shows the giant black-and-red "Everything Must go!" posters hanging from ceiling to floor, and an eerily half-empty basement section.