For striking workers, this means unpaid days on the picket line. For stores, it means fewer working employees to stock shelves and help customers, and for those customers, it means making a choice about where they shop.

On Thursday, workers at 77 King Soopers stores across the Denver metro area started a strike after months of negotiations.

Some shoppers are choosing not to cross the picket lines at the King Soopers stores where union workers are on strike.