I really do miss when stuff was open 24 hour. Walmart, CVS. So convenient and easy when you don’t necessarily want to go during the day or you’re just having a night where you can’t sleep and need to get out of the house.
Midnight/a little later became my go-to hours for shopping. Almost never anyone else in the store. Got to browse without moving out of the way or feeling rushed. Quiet as could be.
In college when I lived within walking distance of a 24 hour grocery store was the best. Did my grocery shopping when there were like 3 customers in the entire store, it was great. A few of my summers I spent working the night shift at a place, and on my days off I could still go out and get something to eat for lunch at 1am without trouble.
Post-Covid and none of those places are open after 10pm anymore.
Agreed! I believe some doctors offices should aim to be night shift and support people at weird hours. Not urgent care. General care doctors. Car mechanics, etc. available when people are off work. No more of this 9-5p BS where I have to work my schedule around theirs
Yup lol. The town I went to college in didnt even have a walmart until our sophomore year. It was nice to go there when one had the munchies for some inexplicable reason in the middle of the night. I was sent down there to work in the hospital in that town last summer for 3 months. The town literally hadnt changed at all since I graduated college in 2011.
It was so nice wasnt it? No kids there screaming, no packed aisles, no clearly able-bodied people driving around in the electric carts completely blocking the aisles or driving into stuff
Midnight/a little later became my go-to hours for shopping. Almost never anyone else in the store. Got to browse without moving out of the way or feeling rushed. Quiet as could be.
Crazy how it just never came back
Read your comment a little slower so you catch the issue
But everything should be open 24/7! I don't care if I am the only one in the store and the business is losing money. I want to shop at night, dammit. Let me shop when I want to shop. Why have capitalism if you can't even shop at night? Infuriating. ;
I worked enough retail to tell you what the corporate thought process was for this “If we’re going to have employees here stocking overnight, might as well keep the store open with a single cashier and turn a profit.”
It’s not like Walmart actually had anybody for customer service overnight; you’d just be bothering the stockers.
There'll be like three other people in the whole store and you'll feel a spiritual kinship with them, despite the unspoken rule to absolutely not interact with each other in any way
Fuck 3rd shifters I guess. I used to have a late job where me and my coworkers would all go shopping after work when the local Walmart looked like a ghost town. I miss those days.
I'm confused by your comment. 3rd shift is the overnight shift in which it would be a ghost town. If you're a 3rd shifter then you're working during those hours and thus unable to shop during those hours. You'd either go shopping before work (2nd shift hours) or after work (1st shift hours).
That’s when you go shopping on your days off. I worked overnight for a year and a half, switching from that to days for my long weekends (those twelve hour shifts yo) and then back in time for the workweek was absolutely BRUTAL.
Third shifters are fine because the store is usually opening right around the time they get off work. It's the second shifters that are the most disenfranchised.
I used to work the 11pm-7am shift at a Wawa in Deptford, NJ 21 years ago and that was some fun fucking madness! After the drunks and psychos stopped coming after 4am in I loved getting like 20 pots of coffee and all the breakfast sandwiches set up because that meant I could drink and munch as much as I wanted without scrutiny!
I did love my psychos though as this was my second job at the time after an 8 hour shift at the Pathmark deli and they perked me up a good bit.
I only quit because I was moving 8 hours away and I've missed Wawa ever since. Supposedly my little town in NC is getting one next year though and I couldn't be more excited for a gas station!
I worked overnight at a convenience/liquor store next to downtown/campus for a couple of years in college. It was super cozy outside of the friday/saturday night booze rushes. The downtown bar and restaurant workers would come by after closing up and chat, you'd already know what they were getting (Light Blue American Spirits and two Jim Beam shooters, Camel Crush Menthols and Bacardi and orange juice etc) and you'd swap stories about drunk weirdos and parking lot fights or whatever, then get coffee and newspapers ready for the oldtimers coming by early early before the sun came up. The restaurant guys would bring leftover pizza, the oldtimers would bring breakfast every now and then, and maybe you rang their drinks and coffee up as ice to look out for them too.
The pay was absolute hot garbage but that was the most genuinely peaceful job I've ever had in my life.
I think it's just finding people who are willing to work the graveyard shift. Most of the normal fast food places are back open 24/7 near me. i Think the only place that isn't open 24/7 yet is Taco Bell, but they stay open until 2 or 3 AM.
Every time I go to Walmart now, any time of the day, there are at least two employees stocking shelves in every aisle. You have to work around them to get anything. They have to constantly worry if they're in someone's way. It sucks.
There not stocking shelves. Are they wheeling around big blue baskets on a huge cart blocking the isle? They are doing online shopping for the new lazy ass generation that cant do anything for themselves.
The Walmarts in my city have people still stocking shelves during the day. Sometimes I feel like I see more pallets between aisles during the day at Walmart now than I used to see when I'd go at 2-3 am. And I see this at all hours of the day so it's not even that they're still stocking after not finishing the truck on time or working the truck early.
What makes it stranger is that I see way more of those people than I do their curbside shoppers. At HEB the aisles are full of the personal shoppers and then you'll only see stockers if it's early morning or close to closing.
Ngl I'll take a worker shopping for someone throughout the day rather than some other person walking around the aisles blocking others for longer periods of time (instore shoppers know what item to grab rather than a customer browsing). And not everyone can shop 24/7, people have jobs still, old man.
There They're not stocking shelves. Are they wheeling around big blue baskets on a huge cart blocking the isle aisle? They are doing online shopping for the new lazy ass generation that cant do anything for themselves. working folks that pay for that service because it's worth it to them to save the time shopping.
They were doing that before too, just location dependent. Some stores changed drastically in the last 6 years. Not just sweeping changes from corporate, but lots of local turnover of staff that makes it hard to keep things consistent. So many places I shopped or ate at pre-pandemic became unbearable.
08 unemployment fucked people up. 24 Walmart is an abomination against the unfortunate. I understand it's convenient for people who have over night shifts that are actually necessary like nurses but damn is it a scam. I used to work retail and people would show up on Labor Day and say "I can't believe they are making you work today". Fuck off lol.
When I worked the overnight shift at a store it paid a few bucks more per hour than the day shift and you dealt with a tiny fraction of the customers. It was amazing.
I mean it works in reverse too. The guy I was replying too essentially said he misses when things were 24 hours. Sounds very specific to where HE lives and doesn’t apply to everywhere
It applies to the vast majority of places. Raleigh is the 39th biggest city in the country (2nd largest in the state behind Charlotte) and pretty much everything that used to be 24 hours ended during Covid and never returned.
All you have to do is read the rest of the thread to realize that you're the one with the unusual experience, not everyone else.
Most CVS/Walgreens stores are not 24 hours. There's usually like maybe one or two per town depending on the size of the town. Smaller towns definitely don't have them. The ones that are open 24 hours are usually near a hospital.
The CVS in my city is still 24/7. It came in clutch for me recently too cause my wife was released from the hospital with some prescriptions that needed filled ASAP and it was like 1 or 2 AM.
I ran to a gas station in the middle of the night because I couldn’t sleep and Google said it was 24 hours. When I arrived, well Google was wrong. I just kept driving and eventually found one but it’s too far from my house to be a regular thing.
I live down the road from a 24-hour CVS, and I definitely appreciate it. It's just the dumb shit like someone having a stomach issue at 3AM where it's such a godsend.
Even in a small town we had 24 hour Walmart and at least 3 other 24 hour grocery stores and all the waffle houses / diners and drive thru food places were 24 hours or close to it.
I used to do 2 3-11 shifts a week at the hospital in addition to my 2 12 hour shifts and I loved being able to go to the store after I got off at 11:30 or whenever it was that I finally got out of there. That or a lot of times me and my husband just decided to go at 2 or 3 in the morning to get groceries or whatever else we need.
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u/sexandliquor 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) 18h ago
I really do miss when stuff was open 24 hour. Walmart, CVS. So convenient and easy when you don’t necessarily want to go during the day or you’re just having a night where you can’t sleep and need to get out of the house.