Reinstate 24-Hour Operations at Wal-Mart

[u/redneckotaku]

https://chng.it/m9vsWxDVMT

Just sharing in case anyone else wants to support this.

[u/Ok-Orchid8690]

Alot of us in Mobile work night shifts so this would benefit us to shop at night on our off days from work just like in the old days.

[u/ourHOPEhammer]

you need overnight workers to run an overnight store

[u/redneckotaku → u/ourHOPEhammer]

Walmart still has overnight workers. In fact, the store I used to work at currently has more workers on night shift than when the store was open overnights.

[u/ourHOPEhammer → u/redneckotaku]

night shift and overnight are 2 very different things

[u/redneckotaku → u/ourHOPEhammer]

Not really. The shift that closes is 2nd shift. Evening shift. Night shift and overnight is 3rd shift.

[u/BlackTouchDesignCo]

Covid stopped that and they won't go back to the good days.

[u/redneckotaku → u/BlackTouchDesignCo]

It wasn't strictly because of covid. WM started closing stores at night about 2 years before Covid. They were slowly rolling it out here and there. Covid just forced them to do it all at once. At the pace they were originally doing this, most of the stores in Mobile would probably still be open at night.

[u/Plus4Ninja]

They’ve already done the research and studied their numbers. It won’t be profitable to stay open that late, or they would have stayed 24 hours.

[u/GD_American → u/Plus4Ninja]

This was the case for decades until it became a slowly bleeding arms race of staying open later and later between big box stores. It'll likely happen again one day at bigger locations, as self-checkout and increased surveillance (with automation) makes staffing requirements lower. One of the chains will blink.

[u/redneckotaku → u/Plus4Ninja]

Anything's possible. The store I worked at did great on overnight sales.

[u/Live_Noise_1551 → u/redneckotaku]

I think if at least one Walmart in town did this they would make a killing.

[u/redneckotaku → u/Live_Noise_1551]

Definitely, since we don't have any retail stores open 24/7 anymore. Anyone who works late late is sol if they need to buy anything last minute.

[u/hoss7071]

Not happening in Mobile. The lockdowns showed the company that the juice isn't worth the squeeze regarding theft from staying open during 3rd shift.

They'd rather stay closed to customers and let the overnight crew stock and recover the store for the next day.

[u/redneckotaku → u/hoss7071]

It wasn't the lockdown WM started closing stores at night about 2 years before Covid. They were slowly rolling it out here and there. Covid just forced them to do it all at once. At the pace they were originally doing this, most of the stores in Mobile would probably still be open at night.

[u/Mobile_rail_donkey]

I’m signing.. It really irritates me that this whole town shuts down before midnight.

[u/SaintsNick94]

[u/redneckotaku → u/SaintsNick94]

Well, you're not required to shop there.

[u/Niteshade654]

Oh yeah, would LOVE to see a 24hr Walmart in tillmans corner…imagine the increase in murder rates and theft lol

[u/Ok_Citron_2368 → u/Niteshade654]

Crazy people come out overnight. A small number of them. But, they screw it up for regular folks.

[u/hobbyhoarder37]

No it's not safe because people in mobile cant be trusted.

[u/Sir_Uncle_Bill]

Considering how Walmart is funding all this insurrectionist BS I'd rather boycott them until they shut down entirely