• higgsboson@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            4 天前

            In the US, it varies quite a bit regionally. I was pretty annoyed when I moved to the South and discovered that very little is open past 11 PM.

            I suppose it depends on the right combination of population density and low minimum wage for it to be viable.

            • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
              1·
              4 天前

              Didn’t know, thought it was all-over. Low min-wage surely is a factor. Here it would probably be absolutely killing. more pay for nightshifts where only a few people actually shop at those times? no way…

        • JATtho@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          20 小时前

          Best time to shop is between 04:00 - 06:00 on Mondays. The cashier basically wakes up from sleep (sorry) and there is absolutely nobody else anywhere, in the shop, the parking lot or the streets.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      7·
      4 天前

      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
        71·
        4 天前

        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.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          4 天前

          They can solve #1 with AI.

          For #2 I bet you anything the executives will make deals with politicians. It will be sold as kind of a “too big to fail” thing. Because they provide a service to the community.

  • madjo@piefed.socialEnglish
    19·
    4 天前

    Grocery stores are open at 4am?! What monster would ask retail workers to work night shifts?

    • ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip
      13·
      4 天前

      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.worldEnglish
        6·
        4 天前

        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 :(

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 天前

      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.

  • UninvestedCuriosity@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 天前

    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.

  • stickyprimer@lemmy.world
    10·
    4 天前

    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.

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
    11·
    4 天前

    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 😭

    • CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      4 天前

      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.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 天前

        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
        1·
        3 天前

        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.