Hi and welcome to six feet apart.

I'm Alex Wagner, journalist and co-host of The Circus on Showtime.

In this series, we're talking to the men and women making tough, complicated decisions in the face of our global pandemic,

and the people whose jobs and lives are directly affected by those Hail Marys.

Today we're looking at the food chain, specifically groceries.

Now that we are a nation of home cooks, Americans, myself included, have become real reliant on the

supermarket for basic survival. Without a constant replenishing of the shelves,

we would be completely lost, literally. Hummus, baby carrots, ego waffles, it's all we got.

Never before has the availability of canned black olives held such sway over our collective

psychological well-being. I cannot express to

you the sense of cosmic victory at my house when the local market finally restocked creamy peanut

butter. As the supermarket goes, so goes the nation. But the companies that get those foods to the

shelves aren't immune to the virus, nor are the people working in the supermarkets, the men and women we buy our groceries from.

How do you manage a national food supply chain, one that is dependent on people to grow, harvest, package, and distribute that food in the middle of a global pandemic.

Are we headed toward a national food shortage? Are we going to make it through this thing

with our elbow macaronies intact? And what does it feel like, all of a sudden, to be thrust

onto the front lines of a crisis, where the job of supermarket clerk

has now suddenly taken on crazy importance and very real risk. That is what we're going to find out

about today, the great grocery war against COVID-19. First, we're going to talk to Jeff Dunn, the CEO of

Bolt House Farms. That's a 100-year-old

vegetable company that is the country's largest supplier of baby carrots. You didn't realize

how much you needed those baby carrots until you had to contemplate a reality where you might

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