Grocery stores are open at 4am?! What monster would ask retail workers to work night shifts?
My shopping list: Coal
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madjo@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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 :(
hraegsvelmir@ani.social 2 weeks ago
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.
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
US companies of course
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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 😭
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
UninvestedCuriosity@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
glitch1985@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is the biggest thing covid took away from me no 24 hour Walmart or grocery stores.
blindbunny@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Second for me. Waffle house used to have tortillas.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Just order your groceries for pickup or delivery so you only have to interact with 0-1 people from a distance.
CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I did this for a while when I had an injury and couldn’t walk easily, but the produce selection was always trash. Plus shopping (and maybe delivery) fees were very expensive. How do you get not-crappy produce if you do this?
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Depends on the store/manager and local competition. My Safeway produce has almost always been good to great. I pay 5.00 a month for no fees delivery (plus tip) so it’s really not expensive.
They often offer deals online also, that you can’t get in the store.
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The bad produce is important. When they fire all the human pickers and replace them with AI robots, you will take the produce that youre given and you’ll be happy about it.
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I miss it. 2020 is the worst thing to ever happen
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Same, but laundry. Also wearing pajamas.
username_1@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Do you prefer boiled or fried coal?
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
… Burnt? Well, unburnt but then I burn it
username_1@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Coal is almost pure carboneum. Ideal for burning and almost impossible to… unburn :)
meow@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Is that the krampus? German mythological being, who steals children, who where Bad :3
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What dat Krussy do?
meow@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Idk, eat them. Also i dont care, AS long AS he does bis job, we are all happy
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Krampus, after centuries of work, decided to take a sabbatical from stealing bad German children, just a few years break early 1900s. How bad can it be
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
*were
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This is what Covid took from me. No more 24 hr shopping
btsax@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Mark the Super Bowl on your calendar (if you are in the US) because it is the best time to go to most stores.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The artist here is Brom, and he’s so fucking good. Gives Goth Boris Vallejo vibes.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Apparently you hate cashiers too (unless it’s a self-service supermarket like those in countries where night shifts legally pay well)
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
not any more or less than their own employers hate them ¯\(ツ)/¯
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Literally me
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Loading up on coal at 4am on the first day of BBQ season! Let’s go!
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Cries in german
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
I too like to go shopping before going to sleep.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
where in the world can you go grocery shopping at 4AM??
sepiroth154@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
The USA and UK have 24/7 supermarkets. Maybe also France but I’m unsure.
AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And gas stations, if you hate yourself enough.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
USA, Europe…except Germany. We close the world when sun goes down. Or weekend hits.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So like the Minneapolis of europe.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I can confirm your statement about Germany haha but I’ve never seen a 24hr supermarket in the Netherlands or France either
M137@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
They’re not common in Europe at all.
Aphos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Also in Germany… It’s called Späti
brb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
24/7 stores are pretty common in Finland, atleast in bigger cities
Haaveilija@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Finland - the promised land of avoiding people :D
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
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.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I don’t think Walmart will be replacing their staff with robots.
One products and store messes are simply so very un-uniform it’s actually hard to automate.
Two the government won’t subsidize the robots like they do the workers.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Finland.
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
WinCo!