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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I once got busy in a 24/7 Walmart bathroom. Welp bye. Reported
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Blue Footed Booby posted:There was one in the Walmart where I went to college and it was mega convenient, but boy did I feel for the employees. drat, how was walmart college?
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Apr 19, 2024 02:10
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Leaving bathroom door open through Wallmart college
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pencilhands posted:I liked it because you could go in at 3 am when there were like 2 employees in the whole store and just take stuff without paying I think we found out why they stopped
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They should at least give us midnight.
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Making hazy, reefer fueled impulse buys on Amazon just isn't the same as wandering the aisles and then giggling at toilet cleaning products for 15 minutes
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Grocery shopping at 3am was so Zen. Just take my time and not having to dodge old people. Just a guy buffing the floor and another guy doing inventory. I really wish 24 hour video rental stores were a thing back when.
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Something that bugs me is they still stock the shelves during shopping hours. I used to often go at like 1:00 am and I can understand doing the stocking then since it's always open, but why restock them now while the store is open? If you go around 10 PM you have to weave around pallets and boxes in every aisle.
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Bonzo posted:Grocery shopping at 3am was so Zen. Just take my time and not having to dodge old people. Just a guy buffing the floor and another guy doing inventory. They had porn on the internet back when there were still video stores, surely.
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Albuquerque always hard closed (outside bars at 2AM) at 12AM, no matter what. Most poo poo was already closed by 8-9PM anyway. All the grocery stores deciding to start closing at 9-10PM permanently when I worked nights through COVID, and continue to work nights for money, has been very convenient. also everything toiletry or laundry related is in a goddamn cage, and at least at the Smith's by my house, you can't access the caged toiletries mini-mart with its own walls and register before 8AM or past 8PM because they slide barriers out and cut it off from the rest of the store. Granted, the neighborhood I live in is lovely, but it's very hostile. MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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Apr 22, 2024 03:43
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cash me at thte Flying J
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im a loves guy they have good burritos
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allsups burritos are the poo poo
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you can just walk into wal mart at night now and gently caress around. nobody's there. try all the make-up on, throw the exercise balls around, go on the ipads, make a bugspray flamethrower. it's a great time go try it
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I once got busy in a 24/7 Walmart bathroom. Welp bye. Busy shoplifting I hope
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Something that bugs me is they still stock the shelves during shopping hours. I used to often go at like 1:00 am and I can understand doing the stocking then since it's always open, but why restock them now while the store is open? If you go around 10 PM you have to weave around pallets and boxes in every aisle. I remember hearing the night shift at Walmart and the big grocery stores used to get like 50 cents more an hour. They all decided to use lockdown hour changes to eliminate it. I'm not sure if it's true but sounds about right. 
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Flora Finching posted:I remember hearing the night shift at Walmart and the big grocery stores used to get like 50 cents more an hour. They all decided to use lockdown hour changes to eliminate it. I'm not sure if it's true but sounds about right. the only reason 8-shift manufacturing plants didn't get rid of shift diffs, 2nd and especially 3rd shift is because their company can't function without the people getting paid $1.50/hr extra with no support to keep everything running. They tried.
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snergle posted:any winco goons? is winco still 24hr? doing my grocery shopping at 2am to avoid society in my early twenties was amazing. Oh poo poo! Looks like WinCo is indeed still 24 hours! They're strictly groceries so they won't be able to reproduce experiences like ringing up a laser printer and a butterball turkey in the same cart at 2:00AM, but it's nice someone's still carrying the torch.
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I miss winco when i lived in the pnw that place was legit
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Time_pants posted:They had porn on the internet back when there were still video stores, surely. Why do you think video stores went out of business? Actually movie companies started releasing direct to video in the mid 90s and then DVDs came out and then Blockbuster ate itself.
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as much as its great being able to just stream whatever you want whenever, i really miss the experience of walking around the video rental store on a friday night prepping for the weekend.
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pencilhands posted:I miss winco when i lived in the pnw that place was legit Love their bulk granola
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Oh poo poo! Looks like WinCo is indeed still 24 hours! Open 24hrs but don’t take credit cards, lol Im tryna impulse buy at 2am here!
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pencilhands posted:as much as its great being able to just stream whatever you want whenever, i really miss the experience of walking around the video rental store on a friday night prepping for the weekend. browsing deep enough on tubi is the only thing that's come close to checking the back wall of the video store
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Covid was the final nail in our local Family Video store, we would still occasionally go to wander the isle and see what weirdness would grab our attention, but I think they all finally closed a few years ago shortly after covid hit. I was honestly surprised they held on as long as they did.
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Last time I was in the states, I went to a Wal-Mart and was standing in line when a badly disheveled man wearing filthy, badly worn clothes literally stumbled into the line with about a dozen bottle of break fluid. MY WIFE isn't American and was confused later as to what he was up to. I didn't have the heart to explain to her that the poor guy was just having some seriously bad car troubles and probably couldn't afford to get a professional to look at it for him. Hope he's doing well now. dsf posted:I remember the Loud Challenge Is this not just normal Wal-Mart? I worked there when I was 16. This was so common we barely even noticed after awhile. IDK, been a long time, maybe Wal-Mart has classed up in the last couple decades. The Bible fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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I decided to see if anyplace around the world still has 24/7 walmart equivalents, it turns out the chinese version of walmart is walmart (they also close at 10 to 11pm)
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It’s decadent. The reason we don’t need the sabbath is because places close for a couple hours! The Lord accommodates within reason.
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Waffle House won the 24 hours wars
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snergle posted:any winco goons? is winco still 24hr? doing my grocery shopping at 2am to avoid society in my early twenties was amazing. Winco owns And no we're never getting 24/7 Walmarts back, Americans simply have let go of the rope of pretending to care about anything
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Was Target ever 24 hours? Seems like they'd always have about 20 shoppers in there if they did.
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Can’t say I remember a Target open that late, but Safeway sure as hell stayed open all night
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Wifi Toilet posted:Open 24hrs but don’t take credit cards, lol
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Squee posted:Covid was the final nail in our local Family Video store, we would still occasionally go to wander the isle and see what weirdness would grab our attention, but I think they all finally closed a few years ago shortly after covid hit. I was honestly surprised they held on as long as they did. Redbox DVD rentals are still popular because you get something to pop in and play without the need for internet or a monthly subscription, it's still a big player in places where outdoor vending machines aren't vandalized. A retail location isn't all that unreasonable if they had a good lease and no competition from DVD rental vendor machines. There's a reason why Blockbuster was a huge franchise, and it had everything to do with costing next-to-nothing: copy tapes, slap on a custom sticker, and if it's ever damaged, just charge the customer a replacement fee. Compared to utilities, rent, wages, and the franchise fees, the merch was nothing. It honestly shocks me that it took games companies like, twenty years to realize "renting poo poo to people makes you more money than selling poo poo to people"
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I've spoke before about how I ran a video store. Renting was good profit. Say I bought a copy of The Terminator for $99USD and I rent it for $3 for two nights. Since it's an older popular movie, I only need one or two copies and anytime someone wants to see the movie, that's $3 in profit without having to replenish inventory. Same with pre-owned titles. I'm going to order 100 copies of True Lies, because it's a big hit and will sell out over the next few weekends. A few months from now I'll take a 10 or 20 of those copies and sell them for $20 each. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentrak was a company that "rent" movies to video stores for a fee. We'd do this for indie films that we were not sure if they would even rent more than 5 times. Around 94 or 95 everyone had a VCR, if not multiple ones. Distributors wanted to sell to the direct market which is why you started seeing movies go for $20 and not the usual $99 price tag. That high price tag was so you'd keep the video stores in business. A few years later you had DVDs and most rental stores were not willing to start switching over inventory, especially after laser disc failed to take off. The only video stores I see that are surviving are ones in big cities like http://baystreetvideo.com/ in Toronto, or the small town general stores.
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MrQwerty posted:also everything toiletry or laundry related is in a goddamn cage, and at least at the Smith's by my house, you can't access the caged toiletries mini-mart with its own walls and register before 8AM or past 8PM because they slide barriers out and cut it off from the rest of the store. They even locked up the socks. 
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Something that bugs me is they still stock the shelves during shopping hours. I used to often go at like 1:00 am and I can understand doing the stocking then since it's always open, but why restock them now while the store is open? If you go around 10 PM you have to weave around pallets and boxes in every aisle. This is because every retail place wants employees out the door essentially right after all customers are gone. You're not given time after closing to do any necessary work or even cleaning in most cases. At some stores I've worked, we were given 30 minutes when the manager was feeling kind, but on average, it would be 15 minutes after close that we'd get if we had dedicated upkeep time. Hell, I worked at Walgreens during the height of Covid and the bastards didn't let us have 15 minutes of uninterrupted cleaning/stocking time unless someone big was coming to look at the store the next day and we "could spare the extra time". I literally had to fight my managers tooth and nail to get to use the special cleaning solution we were sent by the instructions on the bottle. At Walgreens! You know, where we were most guaranteed to come across sick people of all stripes? I still get angry thinking about it, and wondering how many of our immunocompromised customers died because management was too spineless and brainwashed. I was the only one that agitated for it. Corner of happy and healthy my rear end.
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The Bible posted:Last time I was in the states, I went to a Wal-Mart and was standing in line when a badly disheveled man wearing filthy, badly worn clothes literally stumbled into the line with about a dozen bottle of break fluid. MY WIFE isn't American and was confused later as to what he was up to. 24 hour Walmarts were absolutely essential for cat poo poo for late-night workers, like you got a coworker to jump your car, but now it's 2AM and you know that poo poo will never start again? You've got one option for your 2AM car battery. When I shipped my car across the country, I was supposed to pick it up at 8, truck got there at 1AM, then his hydraulic system was empty, good thing we were in a Walmart parking lot, because they had that poo poo available. I hate everything about Walmart, I avoid it like the plague, but for night shift workers it was a godsend. Headed into work at 3 in the morning? Unexpectedly pissed your pants because of recent abdominal surgery? Walmart. 200 mile motorcycle ride home from the airport in 32 degree weather, and the airline lost your luggage with all your cold weather gear? RealTree and Walmart time. Hotel Kpro posted:Can’t say I remember a Target open that late, but Safeway sure as hell stayed open all night I work nights, if I want groceries on my way home my only option now is a local store that maintained its 24/7 status through the pandemic, it's a great option for when I want to pay $5 for an onion. Any reasonable meal is like $50 in groceries, canned beans are no poo poo $3.50, not fancy canned beans, the same ones that are $0.99 at Safeway. They've got some good stuff, and a lot of nice local stuff that's worth a little extra, but when you just need some staples... Also, gently caress Safeway, thank gently caress that Kroger merger got shut down or the whole west coast would be a food desert.
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