# Clean Up on Aisle Five: Essential Work and Poverty Wages at America's Grocery Stores w/ Ann Larson (G&R 502) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/clean-up-on-aisle-five-essential-work-and-poverty-wages-at-america-s-grocery-stores-w-ann-larson-g-r-502 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/clean-up-on-aisle-five-essential-work-and-poverty-wages-at-america-s-grocery-stores-w-ann-larson-g-r-502.md Podcast: [Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547) Published: 2026-06-11T10:45:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenandred/episodes/Clean-Up-on-Aisle-Five-Essential-Work-and-Poverty-Wages-at-Americas-Grocery-Stores-w-Ann-Larson-GR-502-e3kiro5 Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/121253061/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-9%2Fff6df6e7-5d90-ddbd-b6b4-3cee4ee53ec4.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/clean-up-on-aisle-five-essential-work-and-poverty-wages-at-america-s-grocery-stores-w-ann-larson-g-r-502 Duration seconds: 2886 ## Resource πŸŽ‰ Independent media is more vital than ever. Support Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. In our latest, we talk with activist and writer Ann Larson (@annllarson) about her experience working in a Salt Lake City grocery store during the early part of the pandemic. We talk about the economic precarity all grocery workers face there while performing an essential task for our society. We get into corporate policing and surveillance of employees, and the poverty wages and zero benefits they give to the workers. Guest bio// Ann Larson (@AnnLLarson) is an activist and writer focused on economic justice. Her writing has appeared in many publications including the New Republic, the Nation and In These Times. She's the co-founder of the Debt Collective and a Reporting Fellow with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She's the author of "Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register." ------------------------------- Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody πŸ”— Links πŸ“š Clean Up on Aisle Five (https://bit.ly/4ed9FP0) 🌐 Ann's website: https://annlarsonwrites.com/ πŸ’š Support the Green and Red Podcast πŸŽ‰ Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast β˜• One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR πŸŽ™οΈ Follow Green and Red πŸ”— Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org 🌍 Our Networks 🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org πŸ“’ Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork πŸ“» Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org ✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/ 🎬 A Green and Red Podcast producti… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/clean-up-on-aisle-five-essential-work-and-poverty-wages-at-america-s-grocery-stores-w-ann-larson-g-r-502/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/clean-up-on-aisle-five-essential-work-and-poverty-wages-at-america-s-grocery-stores-w-ann-larson-g-r-502.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.