• Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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      I don’t live in the US but I’m guessing people working at Walmart at 2 am is not getting paid enough

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      Honestly, in a sea of underpaid jobs, it’s just nice not having to deal with customers, and some people are just night owls

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      We have one 24hr Walgreens left, and I think that’s it. Feels like the town used to be full of 24hr stores before covid, now it’s just that one Wallgreens.

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        I don’t think any of our Walgreens stores are 24 hours anymore. Since I was a kid, I watched Kerr Drug go out of business, Eccard’s (or however it was spelled) merged with Rite-Aid and then Rite-Aid was bought by Walgreens and half of them shut down. Meanwhile Wal-Mart and Harris Teeter both now close at 11. So if Sheetz doesn’t have it you can’t buy it after 11 pm.

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      Yeah our healthcare facilities close by 8. Which sucks since it forces everyone to the also underfunded and understaffed ER a 30 minute drive away after dark.

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    Currently awake at 3:49 am, night shopping sounds so calming but I’ve never done it before.

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      I used to just walk da fuck out of my house as a teen and go to wmart 2 miles away at 2 am when I was bored. Would have given my parents a heart attack if they knew. I was stupid and confident in my ability to run away if someone attacked me lol.

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    Do they not? When I was a high school senior I liked going there and McDonald’s and driving around all night, but I’m an old man now so I don’t leave the house past January

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    I used to work two jobs and the middle of the night was the only time I could shop and I still don’t want them to go back to that.

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    Please no. Let’s not normalize burnout again. Few good things out of Covid was humane working hours

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    I had a late shift job that was 6pm - 2am. I’d usually run to walmart or other 24hr grocery stores to do my food shopping for the week after my shift. It was always a breeze not having to deal with lines or traffic. The caveat being some crackheads just doing normal 2am crackhead things in front of the store.