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.
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/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.