SEE: Shoplifting suspects attack Bronx supermarket clerk

Supermarket owners say it’s open season for grocery store workers after a Bronx store clerk was attacked by a pair of suspected shoplifters, just days after a clerk was shot dead by a masked gunman from a Manhattan bodega.

Surveillance video from a Foodtown market on Allerton Avenue in the Bronx shows a worker fighting with two customers suspected of shoplifting.

Store workers said the attack happened Tuesday afternoon after an employee confronted two people trying to get out.

The managers called the police from the 49th precinct.

The attack was denounced by a group called Collective Action to Protect Our Stores, an organization of small businesses lobbying for increased enforcement against retail theft.

“With yet another attack on a grocery store worker, now is the time for our leaders at City Hall and Albany to step up and change policies and pass laws that will protect employees and customers,” the group said. it’s a statement. “Enough is enough, it’s time to act.”

Louis Porcelli, supervisor of the Foodtown chain, has been with the company for 30 years. He said the problem is getting worse.

“One of our employees, Alex, was working and noticed two people robbing a store, with merchandise in the bags,” Porcelli told the Daily News.

“Since they now shop with the bags, we always try to make sure they pay for it. They got to the front and just walked out, so he came up to them at the door, trying to retrieve the merchandise, and that’s when it all started. They pushed him to the ground and the guy hit him from left to right.”

The employee returned to work Thursday, Porcelli said.

“We need city and state leaders to step up,” he said. “We need protection, and above all, we need customers to feel safe to come in and buy.”

The Foodtown brawl came days after an Upper East Side bodega worker was shot in the head during a robbery.