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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.
Literally me
This is what Covid took from me. No more 24 hr shopping
I miss it. 2020 is the worst thing to ever happen
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)/¯
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
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.
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.
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
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 :)
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
Also in Germany… It’s called Späti
So like the Minneapolis of europe.
Oh, i thought it was all around the US of A. Obviously not :)
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.
They’re not common in Europe at all.
The USA and UK have 24/7 supermarkets. Maybe also France but I’m unsure.
And gas stations, if you hate yourself enough.
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.
That’s way more informative than it needed be, thanks!
It’s less common in the USA too. Covid casualty.
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
Finland.
Loading up on coal at 4am on the first day of BBQ season! Let’s go!
Same, but laundry. Also wearing pajamas.
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 😭
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.
Cries in german
The artist here is Brom, and he’s so fucking good. Gives Goth Boris Vallejo vibes.
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Mark the Super Bowl on your calendar (if you are in the US) because it is the best time to go to most stores.
I too like to go shopping before going to sleep.
