• stickyprimer@lemmy.world
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    6 months 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.

    • CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months 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.worldEnglish
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        6 months 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.

  • madjo@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

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

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months 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.

    • hraegsvelmir@ani.social
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      6 months 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.

    • ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip
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      6 months 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.worldEnglish
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        6 months 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 :(

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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    6 months 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 😭

  • UninvestedCuriosity@lemmy.world
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    6 months 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.

  • btsax@reddthat.com
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    6 months 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.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Apparently you hate cashiers too (unless it’s a self-service supermarket like those in countries where night shifts legally pay well)