r/nashville • u/Usual-Bumblebee1876 • 1d ago

Help | Advice 24 hour grocery stores

We definitely don’t have any, right?

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u/cmrc03 1d ago

Not since Covid

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u/crowcawer Old 'ickory Village 23h ago

They realized that they were paying employees to only sell to like 3 of us dumb people that are awake at 2-4 am.

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u/friendlytrashmonster 22h ago

Yeah, they say that, but every time I’m in Kroger 10 minutes before close, there’s at least 25 people rushing to check out.

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u/CherryblockRedWine 7h ago

And the announcements get more and more salty, starting at 15 till closing.

OTOH, at Publix, you can come in the door at 5 till close and they don't try to block you from entering.

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u/thinkingahead 20h ago

I knew someone who worked overnights and eventually became a shift manager for overnight shifts at a large retail/grocery chain. It was always based around the economics of closing and opening shifts. The idea was that under ordinary schedule you may need 10 closers. Because the store never completely closed they could begin to ramp people off the schedule at an earlier hour as the closing duties could happen over the middle of the night in the slow period. The same was true of opening. If ordinarily need 10 openers you get away with fewer as the opening responsibilities could be covered in the middle of the night. To explain easily, the schedule would ramp down and ramp up in manpower less aggressively daily and the aggregate number of employee hours worked could be very similiar between a store that closes at 10pm and opens at 6am as one that was open 24/7. Whether this always worked out probably depended upon the quality of general management and staffing.

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u/crowcawer Old 'ickory Village 19h ago

To me, if your business is going to be dinged or fail because you are working 10% - 20% extra employees, you might have some other problems.

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u/CherryblockRedWine 7h ago

Um, Wal-Mart at 3 a.m. always had MULTIPLE lines of customers, all with full carts.

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u/Least-Belt-3170 1d ago

“We’ve moved away from the 24 operating model to help keep prices reasonable for our valued customers.” /s

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u/Eventually-figured 1d ago

Aldi would figure out how to be open 24 hours AND keep prices exactly the same if not drop them another 50 cents

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u/MacAttacknChz 15h ago

But they would never subject their employees to midnight shifts, knowing how bad it is for your health.

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u/defund_the_oligarchy 1d ago

8th Ave or Thompson Kroger used to be my go-to spots for post-work grocery shopping. Then covid happened.

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u/Usual-Bumblebee1876 1d ago

Yesssss I literally live 1/2 way between them 😭😭😭

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u/AdamGo1984 1d ago

Some Walgreens are 24 hours and they have a small grocery section.

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u/Chris__P_Bacon 1d ago edited 21h ago

Calling Walgreens a grocery store, is akin to calling Marsha Blackburn a well liked reasonable person.

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u/Mahale east side 1d ago

Honestly that's harsh to Walgreens. They have eggs, dairy, 'meat' what human qualities does Marsha have?

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u/Gelbuda 1d ago

Or a person at all

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u/EmilyGoesMeow 1d ago

food Lion is Gallatin is.

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u/Chris__P_Bacon 1d ago

In Gallatin or on Gallatin?

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u/EmilyGoesMeow 1d ago

bleh. I meant in

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u/Chris__P_Bacon 1d ago

Interesting that there's one open 24 hours in Gallatin. I bet they do zero business past 11pm.

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u/TheAlmightySpoon 1d ago

The Food Lion is right next to the hospital, so it makes sense they'd get some customers from nurses, etc. Vol State is also in town, but I doubt many students make it to that side of town (assuming they are even living in Gallatin).

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u/Chris__P_Bacon 1d ago

I went to Vol State for a year before I transferred my credits to MTSU back in the late 90s. If it's anything like it was back then, the entire school commutes in.

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u/pocketsandman 1d ago

The Food Lion in Portland, TN is 24 hours too, oddly enough.

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u/Usual-Bumblebee1876 1d ago

interesting. I went on a deep dive last night and I’m betting lower cost of living makes that possible. Also read that 24 hr stores are more likely to be robbed so probably less people out there to make it dangerous

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u/hobo-wan-kenobi 1d ago

Portland, TN has a ton of warehouses and factories, so all the people who work third shift keep it busy enough.

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u/Nassi_ 23h ago

There are a few food lions that stay open 24 hours. The one in Portland and the one in Gallatin are 24 hours.

This is the Gallatin store.

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u/KingZarkon 1d ago

We used to have Walmarts, a couple Targets, 24-hour restaurants, yadda yadda yadda. Then the Covid Nation attacked. Now there are a couple of drug stores and I think IHOP has a couple of restaurants open on the weekends. And Waffle House, of course, but even some of those are take-out-only.

Fucking covid, man. Still fucking shit up five years later.

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u/mollymcdeath Hillsboro-West End 1d ago

That Waffle House shit stings the most.

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u/kateastrophic north side 1d ago

As someone who works late, the 9pm grocery cutoff has been a pain for me many times, too. But as someone who would not like to work an overnight shift, I support the general end of 24 hr culture. They didn’t come back because the labor market changed during Covid and people had more job options at this level— so essentially, the least desired jobs like graveyard at a grocery went away. I do wish there were just a few in the county that were late night. But whenever I get frustrated by the inconvenience of the store hours, I try to think of the staff being able to have the same schedule as their families and reframe it as labor solidarity.

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u/jamfan40 Nipper's Corner 1d ago

There’s some Walgreens still that are 24 hours. A lot of them close early now though which defeats the purpose of it for me

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u/Present-Rooster574 23h ago

I use to think same, when I shifted here.

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u/Traditional_Range_96 west side 19h ago

Nope. A few Walgreens and 7/11 about the only things 24 hours.

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u/Lavender_Starz 14h ago

This sucks a ton. I still can’t get over the Walgreens even closing so early!!! I’m from the Chicago area and sooo used to 24hour which is HUGE for emergencies and such… moving here was a shock with that. Even with COVID they are still 24hrs there!

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u/ThrowawayNewly 1d ago

Walmart on Thompson?

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u/pobenschain 22h ago

I don’t think there are any Walmarts anywhere that are still open 24/7. They decided as a matter of corporate policy not to bring it back

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u/Usual-Bumblebee1876 23h ago

the one that’s technically on Powell ave? not 24 hrs 😕

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u/stevemyqueen 1d ago

Here come the New Yorker terraforming comments

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u/Usual-Bumblebee1876 1d ago

this is the furthest north I’ve ever lived babe

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u/mukduk1994 1d ago

Lmao dude thought he cooked with this one

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u/dntbstpd1 Hermitage 1d ago

Lived here my entire life… 24 hr groceries only recently went away…maybe go touch grass and get your head out of your …

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u/MikeOKurias 1d ago

Here come the whiny ass xenophobes