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This is what Covid took from me. No more 24 hr shopping
Literally me
Loading up on coal at 4am on the first day of BBQ season! Let’s go!
All my overnight grocery stores stopped being open past 10pm. It was only the expensive grocery store that was open all night but I felt it was worth paying.
This is the biggest thing covid took away from me no 24 hour Walmart or grocery stores.
Second for me. Waffle house used to have tortillas.
Just don’t go at 8am because you’ll be stuck in all the slow moving wolf packs of elderly.
I used to think that old people went grocery shopping at 8am to avoid the crowds but now that I’ve seen my dad struggle to sleep past 4am, I think I understand that for a lot of them, 8am is like high noon - their day has been underway for hours and they’re just waiting for the world to wake up.
Mark the Super Bowl on your calendar (if you are in the US) because it is the best time to go to most stores.
Is that the krampus? German mythological being, who steals children, who where Bad :3
*were
What dat Krussy do?
Humans are the worst. But even worse than that are humans gone shopping. Sadly we (Krauts) have no 24/7 shopping or else I’d go at night too, and also I’m a fucking cheapskate. Otherwise I would just shop online.
But then I’d miss all the sweet discounts 😭
where in the world can you go grocery shopping at 4AM??
The USA and UK have 24/7 supermarkets. Maybe also France but I’m unsure.
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It’s less common in the USA too. Covid casualty.
Really miss 24hr stores. Was so great for the late night or early morning shifts and when I just did not want to see anyone
24/7 stores are pretty common in Finland, atleast in bigger cities
Finland - the promised land of avoiding people :D
Walmart used to be open 24 hours, and I would often hit it in the middle of the night, coming home after a late night work event (common for my business).
There were still a lot of people, just not customers. Late at night, the aisles fill with stacks of boxes, and there is an army of workers stocking shelves. Those people will all be replaced by robots within a decade, maybe even half that time.
Anyway, after Covid, they adopted normal hours, and aren’t open all night anymore. There are a few drugstores that are open 24 hours, and convenience stores as well.
Grocery stores are open at 4am?! What monster would ask retail workers to work night shifts?
Honestly, from all my retail jobs between high school to now, nighs shifts were the best. They were the only time in my retail jobs where I would go to work, previous shift manager would tell me what needed to get done by the end of my shift, and just leave me to it. I was advised to bring something to read with me on my first day.
I could bang out all my work in one go, then sit and read for the rest of the night, and nobody cared. Plus, there weren’t that many customers, and most of them tended to keep to themselves, anyway.
When I did overnight grocery in another company, there was even less customer interaction, and we could bring little speakers with us to play music while we stocked our aisles, as long as we didn’t blast it crazy loud or have something playing with tons of profanity. Out of all my positions working with the public in retail, those were easily the best. Also, given the minimal staffing on the overnights, we really only saw each other when we all took our breaks, so work place drama was pretty minimal.
Night shifts are typically the only actual humane, reasonable, and nonsoul crushing retail shifts
Low customer volume, no micro management, self directed time tables.
Like it’s literally the only way retail is reasonable.
Everything was open late before covid. Wegmans and Walmart were 24/7, we had pizza places open till 3am, etc.
During college I worked retail on second shift, it wasn’t so bad.
Yeah I “think” we have one all night dinner left out of dozens of places before COVID. And that’s in a 500k pop City.
I miss 4-5 am grocery shopping :(
