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I Run a Convenience Store in Wuhan: Documenting Life in the Store After the Lockdown
The lives of ordinary people are even more moving. I only talk about what I experienced myself. This is the second floor of our store, which I decorated simply for Christmas. I lived here during the lockdown. On the first day of the lockdown, 2020.1.23, I got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and scrolled through the group, saw a group member repost the announcement, thought it was fake news, and went back to sleep. Around 6:30, I got a call from my supervisor (a common management position in the convenience store industry, managing 5-8 stores for the company), saying the city was locked down, the store needed to stay open, and we needed to arrange enough staff to prevent panic buying. Also, a store in the subway station next to me needed to transfer short-shelf-life goods to me, and I should cooperate as much as possible.
Amico