Currently awake at 3:49 am, night shopping sounds so calming but I’ve never done it before.
I used to just walk da fuck out of my house as a teen and go to wmart 2 miles away at 2 am when I was bored. Would have given my parents a heart attack if they knew. I was stupid and confident in my ability to run away if someone attacked me lol.
Life’s short, do weird stuff!
There’s no where to do it anymore
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It’s quiet. Nice if you have social anxiety.
But stock is sometimes lacking.
Are they not 24-hours anymore? I’ve not shopped at Walmart for probably a decade now. Shopping late at night was the best; you never really realize just how much other shoppers slow you down until you have the whole store to yourself.
I’m not sure if some random ones are but I travel a good bit and since covid I have not seen a single Walmart open past 11pm. They are one of a TON of businesses that got rid of overnight operations for covid and never brought it back.
That’s a real shame. Just one more L for us night-shifters.
Yep no more overnight Walmart. Damn shame Covid plus Trump ruined everything.
Around Lancaster, PA you’d have a group of Amish teenagers wandering Walmart at that time of night, alongside meth heads.
I loved shopping at 2 am. It was basically me, nighttime truckers, and people who worked weird shifts stopping by after work. When I shop in the day the aisles are congested and shelves occasionally need a restock, and checkout lines out take forever (looking at you costco)
If one is in your area, Winco is your friend then. 24hr grocery shopping. They are also worker owned and have a great bulk goods selection, so they are a better food shopping experience at roughly the same price point.
I no longer live in the PNW. I miss Winco.
What state are you in, if you don’t mind me asking? I just moved from Dallas to Los Angeles and there are Wincos in both, just kind of out of the way.
Illinois now. Winco has yet to penetrate the Midwest!
Sounds like a Debbie Does Dallas spinoff: Winco Does Wisconsin
I miss WinCo. Had one in the town my college was in. I used to get a cart full of groceries for like $80. That place was the jam
The nearest winco to me is a country away ;_;
I wish I could shop at a unionized store or a worker-owned place but none exist near me for groceries.
I lived across the street from one for awhile and loved going grocery shopping late at night to avoid everyone else.
The best time to go. Free entertainment that late too from some of the customers.
I’ve always heard stories of shit going down at walmart, but I’ve never seen it.
Dennys, on the other hand…
We’d go to Ralph’s at 2am and buy a carton of half & half for $0.69 and pay with a check.
Far out, man
That would be a dream for autistic people with heavy sensory issues. Mine are usually manageable, but it sure would be convenient either way. I’ve never seen any 24/7 supermarket over where I live; I guess it’s just not a thing in my country (or Europe in general, from my experience).
Labour laws are too good over here.
We in Finland have great labour laws and great unions, but still have some 24/7 stores.
The secret ingredient is extra pay.
We used to have them in the UK pre-covid. My local Tesco and Asda were all 24 hour, except for Sunday trading. Now, barely any are open around that time.
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As a person who doesn’t like big groups of people, sounds great
Surely there are some people that prefer the night schedule. The problem is capitalism and wage labor, not the fact that there are “inconvenient” schedules for most people.
Do they not? When I was a high school senior I liked going there and McDonald’s and driving around all night, but I’m an old man now so I don’t leave the house past January
I used to work two jobs and the middle of the night was the only time I could shop and I still don’t want them to go back to that.
Please no. Let’s not normalize burnout again. Few good things out of Covid was humane working hours
Unless you worked night stock. Then it got even more insane.
Burn them all down instead.
There it is.
The problem I have is there isn’t a 24 hour pharmacy in my town anymore, and sometimes you suddenly need to by immodium at 3 AM.
We have one 24hr Walgreens left, and I think that’s it. Feels like the town used to be full of 24hr stores before covid, now it’s just that one Wallgreens.
I don’t think any of our Walgreens stores are 24 hours anymore. Since I was a kid, I watched Kerr Drug go out of business, Eccard’s (or however it was spelled) merged with Rite-Aid and then Rite-Aid was bought by Walgreens and half of them shut down. Meanwhile Wal-Mart and Harris Teeter both now close at 11. So if Sheetz doesn’t have it you can’t buy it after 11 pm.
I forgot a Sheetz opened here recently. 7 Eleven might open soon too.
Yeah our healthcare facilities close by 8. Which sucks since it forces everyone to the also underfunded and understaffed ER a 30 minute drive away after dark.
Or don’t.
If you’ve ever worked retail and/or graveyard … just no.
All they’ll do is employ people to work horrible night shifts questioning their lives for peanuts in pay.
And the people who come in at 2am…
Ugh
Is it that bad? Worked nights at petrol station and…honestly, one of the best jobs I had. Paid shit, but was chill and somewhat inline with my internal clock so…
One of my closest friends nearly committed suicide because of how miserable Walmart made his life.
My condolences. Seems to be less so night shifts and more so Walmart itself then. I know people who aren’t of the night-time is wake-time type are immensely drained by night shifts…never imagined it could be this bad.
nothing to see here :)
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Honestly, in a sea of underpaid jobs, it’s just nice not having to deal with customers, and some people are just night owls
I’m a night owl and working 2am-11am in retail had me driving to work with my seat belt off hoping a drunk driver would hit me.
Hate to say but I don’t think that job was for you then
I didn’t start off on that shift. The job itself wasn’t bad, it was the hours.
Due to working in retail in general or was the night shift even worse than the day/evening shift?
It was the night shift. I started on the day shift and things were fine then.
I don’t live in the US but I’m guessing people working at Walmart
at 2 amis not getting paid enoughI
don’tlive in the USbut I’m guessingpeople working at Walmartat 2 am isnot getting paid enough
The real reason:
Walmart ain’t got enough staff to enforce shit at 2AM
Nah forcing workers to survive mimum wage is hard enough. Don’t force them to work at the middle of the night.
Have a “petrol station/corner shop” open for emergencies.
They still have stockers and cleaning done overnight. It’s just not open to customers.
Don’t force them to work at the middle of the night.
What if they want to work in the middle of the night. I miss night shifts.
They’ll still be jobs hiring. Like corner stores in my example.
But I’m willing to bet big money more people are forced to work night shifts they’d rather not work, than wish they were working night shifts.
Not to mention the societal costs and burden it brings on as it heavily impacts various health risks.
Shift work has been a thing forever
Not sure why retail is any different.
Pretty sure they’re still working.
Just focused on cleaning and stocking shelves.
But at least not dealing with customers!
Maybe in the US. Where I live basically all retail ends between 5-7pm.
5-8 here in Florida. Some places open as late as 9, but don’t count on it.
That sounds positively awful to me. If I’m home by 6, finish eating by 7 then I can’t do anything at night.
In my culture we eat dinner more like 9pm.
Also “doing things” is usually not shopping. The abundant supermarkets next to the train stations let you do all needed errands on the way home from work.
We really have no work-life balance in this country.
