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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
I too like to go shopping before going to sleep.
(It's nice to take a nap afterwords, especially if I snacked intelligently after buying groceries after a long day.)
55 Comments
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 54 pts · 133d
where in the world can you go grocery shopping at 4AM??
sepiroth154@feddit.nl · 33 pts · 133d
The USA and UK have 24/7 supermarkets. Maybe also France but I'm unsure.
AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk · 23 pts · 133d
errer@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 133d
It’s less common in the USA too. Covid casualty.
PacMan@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 133d
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
sepiroth154@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 133d
That's way more informative than it needed be, thanks!
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 133d
And gas stations, if you hate yourself enough.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 133d
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 133d
So like the Minneapolis of europe.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 133d
higgsboson@piefed.social · 1 pts · 133d
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 pts · 133d
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 133d
I can confirm your statement about Germany haha but I've never seen a 24hr supermarket in the Netherlands or France either
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 133d
Some of the airports have 24/7 grocery stores in Germany. These are before security so accessible to all
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 133d
Airports have grocery stores?
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 133d
Some do. The Stuttgart airport has an Edeka
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 133d
M137@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 133d
They're not common in Europe at all.
Aphos@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 133d
Also in Germany.. It's called Späti
brb@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 133d
24/7 stores are pretty common in Finland, atleast in bigger cities
Haaveilija@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 133d
Finland - the promised land of avoiding people :D
JATtho@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 130d
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.
Haaveilija@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 129d
Time stamp of your comment seems to check out.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 133d
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 · 7 pts · 133d
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.zip · 1 pts · 133d
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.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 133d
Finland.
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 133d
WinCo!
madjo@piefed.social · 21 pts · 133d
Grocery stores are open at 4am?! What monster would ask retail workers to work night shifts?
ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 133d
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 · 8 pts · 133d
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 · 8 pts · 133d
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 · 5 pts · 133d
US companies of course
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 132d
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 · 12 pts · 133d
stickyprimer@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 133d
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 · 9 pts · 133d
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 · 13 pts · 133d
This is the biggest thing covid took away from me no 24 hour Walmart or grocery stores.
blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 132d
Second for me. Waffle house used to have tortillas.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 133d
Same, but laundry. Also wearing pajamas.
chunes@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 133d
I miss it. 2020 is the worst thing to ever happen
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 133d
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 · 7 pts · 133d
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 · 5 pts · 133d
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 pts · 132d
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.
username_1@programming.dev · 7 pts · 133d
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 133d
...... Burnt? Well, unburnt but then I burn it
username_1@programming.dev · 5 pts · 133d
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 133d
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 132d
This is what Covid took from me. No more 24 hr shopping
btsax@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 133d
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 · 5 pts · 133d
The artist here is Brom, and he's so fucking good. Gives Goth Boris Vallejo vibes.
meow@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 133d
Is that the krampus? German mythological being, who steals children, who where Bad :3
Agent641@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 133d
What dat Krussy do?
meow@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 133d
Idk, eat them. Also i dont care, as long as he does bis job, we are all happy
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 133d
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 pts · 131d
*were
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 133d
Cries in german
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 133d
I too like to go shopping before going to sleep.
(It's nice to take a nap afterwords, especially if I snacked intelligently after buying groceries after a long day.)
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 132d
Loading up on coal at 4am on the first day of BBQ season! Let’s go!
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 3 pts · 132d
Literally me
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · -4 pts · 133d
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 · 10 pts · 133d
not any more or less than their own employers hate them ¯\(ツ)/¯