They are on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic - risking their own health to make sure the nation can stay fed during lockdown.
Supermarket workers, along with NHS staff, have become the heroes we rely on every day to get us through these troubling times.
For checkout manager Jenni Kwiatkowski from Tameside, it's a 'surreal' position to be in. It's not a situation she would have ever predicted when she signed up to work at Morrisons in Dukinfield five years ago.
But it's a responsibility she is taking seriously - and she wants customers to know staff are there for them. For every rare incident in which shoppers have become rude or abusive, she says there are countless others in which people have shown genuine compassion.