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re: The death of the 24/7 stores
Posted on 8/23/25 at 10:16 am to Odysseus32
Posted on 8/23/25 at 10:16 am to Odysseus32
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Posted on 8/23/25 at 10:45 am to SallysHuman
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I think COVID gave them the excuse they needed to do what they wanted to anyway.
I’m sure it was less Machiavellian than that. They were doing it because they had been doing it.
COVID forced them to self reflect and find cost cutting moves.
They didn’t reinstate it because they had no reason to.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 11:27 am to Volvagia
Once upon a time many businesses had night shifts. At a minimum the night work consisted of cleaning, but it could also be shipping/receiving (nearly zero traffic), stocking, inventory, etc. For groceries to add one or two all-night cahiers wasn't a major expense. Customers included people working swing and graveyard shifts.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 11:46 am to Odysseus32
I used to go and grocery shop at the WalMart on Seigen at like midnight on Friday night. I made sure I was armed to 
Posted on 8/23/25 at 11:47 am to HeadCall
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Ok boomer
Not that young, now get off my yard!
Posted on 8/23/25 at 12:07 pm to Pendulum
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Worry not, soon you'll be able to order in a drone delivery from a shadow 24 hr grocery store, and you wont even have to get up from your motorized wheel chair or disconnect your glp1 IV.
And that’ll last 5 minutes before Cultcha figures out how to ruin it for everyone.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 12:15 pm to wallowinit
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This is perhaps the most misunderstood phrase of all time.
It’s right up there with “no pain no gain”.
Clip is posted below and seems very clear. Perhaps what is missing is the 3rd view? You can ponder life imitating art in Sir James Goldsmith's run on the Saint Regis Paper Company around the same time. While the fights in the past were centered around an individual, hedge funds are now doing so with terrible destruction and no press coverage.
Most management has no real skin in the game and no "started in the mail room" level knowledge of what their companies actually do.
While we are told the folks like Gordon Gekko's real life equivalent are self styled "benevolent investors" they are neither as their goal is SHORT term over LONG TERM (hence speculating, not investing). Hardly benevolent when he went after P&G (he had already arranged to sell 1/3 to South American companies, 1/3 to Unilever in Europe, and 1/3 to private equity to strip assets for instant returns. As P&G had and had over 100,000 jobs, most in the USA. The profits were in moving those jobs overseas or eliminating them.
The 3rd option is what best benefits the employees, consumers, and long term stockholders (the actual investors and pension funds). Sadly they are the ones out in the cold in the fights between the other two.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 12:18 pm to Odysseus32
Walmarts in Louisiana stopped after Katrina
Posted on 8/23/25 at 12:27 pm to muttenstein
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Before Covid you could count on all Waffle Houses being 24/7. Now that is a rarity. Fonk Covid!
What in the Sam Hell are you talking about?
Posted on 8/23/25 at 12:29 pm to chalmetteowl
Since you lack reading comprehension, replace liquor with any other item. The liquor is an example of an item commonly locked up. Could be anything.
Christ, this education system has failed a lot of yall.
Christ, this education system has failed a lot of yall.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 12:41 pm to Nephropidae
I can’t imagine caring that much about your opinion lol
Posted on 8/23/25 at 12:52 pm to muttenstein
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Before Covid you could count on all Waffle Houses being 24/7. Now that is a rarity.
Wut?
WH is still 24/7.
The frick are you talking about?
This post was edited on 8/23/25 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 8/23/25 at 1:22 pm to Odysseus32
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Odysseus32
Damn you went to bed at 8:30 on a friday night?
Posted on 8/23/25 at 1:52 pm to ChefLSU
I’m in bed 830 no matter the night.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 2:21 pm to Cheese Grits
The phrase goes farther back than a stupid movie.
Leave it to Hollywood to bastardize something that is entirely reasonable, but sounds bad to a shallow mind so it must be bad.
Leave it to Hollywood to bastardize something that is entirely reasonable, but sounds bad to a shallow mind so it must be bad.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 3:12 pm to wallowinit
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Leave it to Hollywood to bastardize something that is entirely reasonable
:LSUKIGE:
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The phrase goes farther back than a stupid movie.
Do tell.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 3:24 pm to Odysseus32
Open 24 hours was great... But trying to check out when there was one lane open and had 10 people in line was a PITA... And being combined with being drunk didn't help...
Posted on 8/23/25 at 3:30 pm to Odysseus32
It’s one of the things I miss the most about pre Covid life
fricking loved going to the store when no one else was there
fricking loved going to the store when no one else was there
Posted on 8/23/25 at 4:54 pm to Odysseus32
The Walmart at Highland and Lee was always entertaining late at night. Half of the time it was their ghetto arse employees fighting each other in the store.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 4:57 pm to Bama and Beer
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I do believe Covid stopped most Walmarts from being 24 hours
Yes. And it’s a pain in the arse to have to go on there now to try and buy something. Between the Walmart employees pushing those gargantuan buggies to fill orders and others trying to put up stock, it’s almost impossible to get around in their grocery section.
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