🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 Do any of you guys have any 24 hour stores in your area?

[TerryP]

I'm not speaking of a 7-11 type store, or a CVS / Walgreens.

This is another one of those things that happened and for some reason I just didn't notice. There are none in my area. It's still the after effects of the Covid shutdowns.

I know Walmart was open before C-19. I'm almost positive Lowe's Foods was as well.

People who have lives that have them up at this hour are among the most discriminated against groups in the US. You day-walkers...

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I'm not speaking of a 7-11 type store, or a CVS / Walgreens.

This is another one of those things that happened and for some reason I just didn't notice. There are none in my area. It's still the after effects of the Covid shutdowns.

I know Walmart was open before C-19. I'm almost positive Lowe's Foods was as well.

People who have lives that have them up at this hour are among the most discriminated against groups in the US. You day-walkers...

It's a business decision, not discrimination. For most large businesses (you mentioned Walmart), the foot traffic doesn't justify it, and there is a greater likelihood of shoplifting when a store is skeleton staffed and a higher percentage of the customers are drunk/high. Many, probably most, folks who work nights are in one place (plant, etc.), and the mobile workers (tow truck drivers, police, etc.) adjust. Many of those who are mobile during those hours aren't optimal customers (I think of what I see at Waffle House at 1am).

I have a good buddy (old across the street neighbor) who turned wrenches for Delta, left when they were in trouble, had a remodel business, and then ended up back turning a wrench and managing mechanics for AirTran, then finished with Southwest after the AirTran acquisition until his retirement. With the acquisition, they put him behind all legacy Southwest mechanics, such that he never got off night shift in his last fourteen years before retirement, and only the last three or four years he didn't have to pull 12-hour Saturday and Sunday shifts. More than once, I've shared a "happy hour" beer with him at 9am on a Saturday when he's unwinding from a shift.

 

[TerryP]

It's a business decision, not discrimination.

 

[TerryP]

I have a good buddy (old across the street neighbor) who turned wrenches for Delta, left when they were in trouble, had a remodel business, and then ended up back turning a wrench and managing mechanics for AirTran, then finished with Southwest after the AirTran acquisition until his retirement. With the acquisition, they put him behind all legacy Southwest mechanics, such that he never got off night shift in his last fourteen years before retirement, and only the last three or four years he didn't have to pull 12-hour Saturday and Sunday shifts. More than once, I've shared a "happy hour" beer with him at 9am on a Saturday when he's unwinding from a shift.

Aside from some of the obvious drawbacks—like wanting a taco or enchilada at 4 in the morning and you're forced to make it yourself—I wouldn't trade the schedule for the world. It's too peaceful and far more productive.

We had the doors open at 7:30 with the Pub for guys just like him. There are quite a few places on the base with three shifts (including the military guys who came in early.) I'd dare say the crowd we had before lunch were the best group. There was such a relaxed vibe.

 

[TerryP]

It's a business decision, not discrimination. For most large businesses (you mentioned Walmart), the foot traffic doesn't justify it, and there is a greater likelihood of shoplifting when a store is skeleton staffed and a higher percentage of the customers are drunk/high. Many, probably most, folks who work nights are in one place (plant, etc.), and the mobile workers (tow truck drivers, police, etc.) adjust. Many of those who are mobile during those hours aren't optimal customers (I think of what I see at Waffle House at 1am).

I would tend to agree with this. Except, the two Walmart's I had in mind when asking that had crowds at 3 AM that were the same size as the ones you'd see on a Sunday at 10 AM. You might get the first spot in a row but you're walking farther than the fifth one from the front door.

Reminds me of when the Super K open some 20 or so years ago. They were thumping at all hours. Strangely enough, the bakery they had in the store did quite a bit of business.

(I need some epoxy. A few hours ago, if I could have, I'd have gone and picked it up. It'll be here in an hour or so as it is...)