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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.
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.
Grocery stores are open at 4am?! What monster would ask retail workers to work night shifts?
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 :(
Just order your groceries for pickup or delivery so you only have to interact with 0-1 people from a distance.
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.
where in the world can you go grocery shopping at 4AM??
24/7 stores are pretty common in Finland, atleast in bigger cities
Finland - the promised land of avoiding people :D
The USA and UK have 24/7 supermarkets. Maybe also France but I'm unsure.
and UK
well, we used to, and it was wonderful. But not so much any more. They still exist in some places but they're much rarer now.
It’s less common in the USA too. Covid casualty.
That's way more informative than it needed be, thanks!
And gas stations, if you hate yourself enough.
Finland.
USA, Europe...except Germany. We close the world when sun goes down. Or weekend hits.
I can confirm your statement about Germany haha but I've never seen a 24hr supermarket in the Netherlands or France either
Some of the airports have 24/7 grocery stores in Germany. These are before security so accessible to all
Airports have grocery stores?
Some do. The Stuttgart airport has an Edeka
Couldn't remember one either, but i also don't KNOW. So far, from every other european i heard, it's more common. I might be wrong :)
So like the Minneapolis of europe.
Oh, i thought it was all around the US of A. Obviously not :)
Also in Germany.. It's called Späti
They're not common in Europe at all.
WinCo!
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.
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.
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.
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.)
The artist here is Brom, and he's so fucking good. Gives Goth Boris Vallejo vibes.
Is that the krampus? German mythological being, who steals children, who where Bad :3
What dat Krussy do?
Idk, eat them. Also i dont care, as long as he does bis job, we are all happy
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
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 😭
Same, but laundry. Also wearing pajamas.
Do you prefer boiled or fried coal?
...... Burnt? Well, unburnt but then I burn it
Coal is almost pure carboneum. Ideal for burning and almost impossible to... unburn :)
Apparently you hate cashiers too (unless it's a self-service supermarket like those in countries where night shifts legally pay well)
not any more or less than their own employers hate them ¯\(ツ)/¯
