nothing to see here :)
I don’t live in the US but I’m guessing people working at Walmart
at 2 amis not getting paid enoughHonestly, in a sea of underpaid jobs, it’s just nice not having to deal with customers, and some people are just night owls
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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.
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).
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Currently awake at 3:49 am, night shopping sounds so calming but I’ve never done it before.
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.
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.
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
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.
Around Lancaster, PA you’d have a group of Amish teenagers wandering Walmart at that time of night, alongside meth heads.
Your walmart closes?
All the ones near me close at 11pm.
The real reason:
Walmart ain’t got enough staff to enforce shit at 2AM
I had a late shift job that was 6pm - 2am. I’d usually run to walmart or other 24hr grocery stores to do my food shopping for the week after my shift. It was always a breeze not having to deal with lines or traffic. The caveat being some crackheads just doing normal 2am crackhead things in front of the store.
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.
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.
We really have no work-life balance in this country.
5-8 here in Florida. Some places open as late as 9, but don’t count on it.
Shift work has been a thing forever
Not sure why retail is any different.
Nah… Walmart can’t force folks to work 24 hour shifts anymore.
