Kroger offers some employees $25 in groceries instead of paid leave during coronavirus outbreak

The most valuable supermarket chain in the United States is offering some of its employees a reward for working during the novel coronavirus outbreak: a $25 stipend they can use to buy groceries within the store.

Kroger, which owns a number of grocery stores including Harris Teeter, Ralphs, and Dillons, has maintained sick leave politicizes that encourage ill employees to keep showing up to work, refusing to offer paid leave for a majority of its more than 450,000 workers unless they test positive for the coronavirus. But it can be unclear whether or not someone has been infected as testing kits slowly roll out across the nation.