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Post by disneypal on Aug 8, 2022 20:01:26 GMT
Yes, I have seen it at retail locations but even more so at restaurants. So many in my area are closed on Sundays and Mondays and some even on Tuesdays. Many close at 7pm and they used to be open until 11pm. Others only open for dinner and no longer open for lunch. Some have had to close for the day without any notice because they don't have enough people to work. Why do you think retail and restaurants are having such a hard time being fully staffed?
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garcia5050
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Post by garcia5050 on Aug 8, 2022 20:46:08 GMT
During the height of the pandemic, I saw that some stores opened at 7 am instead of 6 am. All of that is back to normal where I live.
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Post by maryannscraps on Aug 8, 2022 20:58:37 GMT
My son works retail. They cut back their hours in a mall from 10-9 to 11-7. They don't have enough employees to cover the hours. Not to mention they don't want to pay overtime or have full time employees to whom they'd have to offer health insurance.
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Post by pixiechick on Aug 9, 2022 0:28:49 GMT
I've definitely noticed a lot of stores and restaurants closed early and some places not open at all because they're short staffed. One day my husband went through the drive through and Arby's was out of meat! Isn't the tagline on their commercials Arby's, we have THE MEAT! Not part of the poll, but do you think this is the new normal? We are moving away from expanded hours to limited hours of operation for most places? As a night owl, I love stuff that I can do at night and will miss it if it goes away. Could be. On a similar note, I went back to my home town and the mall was basically empty. It was open but not many stores or food court counters at all, then I saw a reel online with someone else showing their mall in the same condition. I wonder how much covid and online shopping is going to impact the brick and mortar stores in the long run? |
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Post by katlady on Aug 9, 2022 0:44:21 GMT
At one of the malls here, they remodeled and basically there is no indoor food court. Instead, they have eating establishments that you access from the parking lot. That area gets pretty crowded on weekends and parking is hard to find. It is good business for the restaurants, but it is not enticing people to go into the actual mall and shop around.
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Post by styxgirl on Aug 9, 2022 1:35:28 GMT
Just a fluff question. Not really important in the scheme of things but all my waffle wisdom is gone 😉 (the rude/breakfast thread). = Hahaaa! That's MY fault! LOL ;-) |
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Post by Legacy Girl on Aug 9, 2022 1:44:25 GMT
Walgreens now closes at 7 pm. CVS used to be 24 hours and now closes at midnight with a break for the lunch hour.
I was looking to buy bagels this weekend and learned that the bagel shop now closes daily at 1 pm. So does a donut shop we've been checking out on vacation.
The one that really gets me, though, is my former 24- hour grocery. I'm with the PP (OP?) who appreciated the chance to get things done during late-night/off hours. Makes me crazy when the only store in town that's open over night is a gas station/ convenience store. People?!?! I have stuff to accomplish! 😂
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Post by Scrapper100 on Aug 9, 2022 3:30:10 GMT
A lot of stores locally have reduced their hours, opening at 10 or 11 when they used to open at 9 or 10. And my gym is open 5am -10pm M-F, 6am-8pm Sat & Sun, they used to be open 24 hrs. Costco is the exception--now opens at 9am, when they used to open at 10am Our local Costcos still don’t open until 10 (9:30 on Sat). They used to have senior hours at 9AM, but they stopped that. Same here. I wish they opened earlier as our stores are crazy busy snd the extra hour would help. |
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Post by Scrapper100 on Aug 9, 2022 3:38:25 GMT
I haven’t really noticed many changes but we have tried a few restaurants that opened later than what is posted online but it’s been months now snd they were small mom and pop places.
Most restaurants and breweries are closed on Monday and Tuesday and some breweries are basically only open on the weekends Fri-Sunday.
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Post by chaosisapony on Aug 9, 2022 3:51:32 GMT
Yes, in fact this has been a topic of conversation at work lately. A coworker went to go to JCPenney, they have always opened at 10 am. She got there at 10, doors were still locked. She noticed the signed was changed to say they open at 11. So she went to do other errands and got back at 11:30. Doors still locked. She went into the mall into a neighboring store to ask them what time Penney's usually opens. That employee told her "oh they open around noon sometimes, sometimes later, you never really know."
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 9, 2022 4:45:56 GMT
A lot of it is due to staffing, or the lack thereof. I’m almost positive our Target used to be open more hours than they currently are (7-10) and I’m also almost positive that the Walmart in my area used to be 24 hours and now the hours are 6-11 (not that I ever step a foot in the place, I hate that store). Even more noticeable is the serious lack of cashiers even during busy times. I stopped at Target last week to pick up some stuff for a friend who is housebound, and I think there were two cashiers at the registers and six self checkouts open. There had to have been 25 customers waiting to check out. A bunch with smaller purchases went to the self check line but I had a cart full of stuff so I waited in a line with a cashier. A third cashier came to open, and as soon as I got up to the belt the lady working my line flipped her light out and said her lane was closed, go to the other guy that just opened up.  Some of the fast food restaurants have had limited in-store hours with even more limited in store cashiers, and only have the drive through staffed. Some others were closed on Mon-Tues for a while but are now back open 7 days a week again. At our lake cabin, the most noticeable is the local dollar store which a lot of people in town rely on to get some of their groceries and household stuff, since the town is basically a food desert after the only grocery store in town closed up a few years back. There has been ongoing discussion on Facebook about the inconsistent hours and lack of employees to keep the store adequately staffed, and the word now is even the store manager quit without notice. The complaint was that the manager couldn’t keep enough staff because the pay was too low at around $9 an hour. Pretty easy to understand when the Walmart a few towns over starts at about $16-20 an hour and even they can’t get enough workers. Actually, as inconvenient as it sometimes is to not have 24/7/365 access to these places, perhaps it is the swing of the pendulum that needed to happen so people in general could go back to having a little more life balance. Is it really the end of the world for stores and other places to not be open 24 hours a day, especially since now so many people can order stuff online and have it delivered right to their door a couple days later? With less people working around the clock, maybe society in general doesn’t NEED to be open around the clock then, KWIM? I also think it was nice the last couple years for there to not have such a huge, ever earlier rush on Thanksgiving Day / Black Friday and other holidays, and for the stores to dial back the crazy so their employees can be at home with their own families. |
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Post by miominmio on Aug 9, 2022 5:22:04 GMT
It's interesting that we're all experiencing this no matter where or what country we live in. Yet, the only reason I hear is staffing shortages. Surely there aren't lazy people from all over the globe collecting our unemployment? They all need to get back to work. /s Seriously though, is this a model that's being adopted across most business & that's just the reason given? Did they find that they were still making the same with the shorter hours as they were being open longer? I find it irritating that we're going back to "bankers hours" when stores are closed when many people get off from work. Haven’t seen it or heard about it in Norway. The only exception is the small, local bakery, which closes two hours earlier (open 9 am to 2 pm now) for health reasons. Which makes me terribly anxious, because their bread is the best! Unfortunately, the two owners are in their seventies, so it is probably only a matter of time before they close for good. |
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Post by mikklynn on Aug 9, 2022 13:07:29 GMT
I never go to a mall, but I did take my granddaughter to Lululemon last month. The anchor stores at the mall opened at 10, but none of the smaller stores opened until 11 am.
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Post by txsweetpea on Aug 9, 2022 16:58:16 GMT
The mall opens an hour later at 11:00. Not all Walgreens have weekend pharmacy hours due to lack of qualified staff.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Aug 10, 2022 0:06:11 GMT
I’m old enough to remember when 24/7/365 was unheard of and most businesses were closed on Sunday. I work in a business that doesn’t close and we struggle to find labor. We have raised our pay, but we still struggle.
I don’t think any of our Walmarts are open 24 hours. Most places I have gone to have shorter hours and are not open 7 days a week.
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Post by moodyblue on Aug 10, 2022 2:10:52 GMT
The Walgreen's I use no longer has the pharmacy open at all on Saturdays. There are also specific hours when the pharmacy is closed each day in order to give the pharmacist a lunch break. They used to have more than one in the store during most hours.
My retired teachers group is going out to lunch tomorrow. We had to change the location because when one of the group called to make a reservation she was told they won’t be opening until later in the afternoon because of staffing issues.
One popular local restaurant has always been closed on Mondays; they are now also closed on Tuesdays.
A Mexican restaurant I like was closing at 6 pm the last I heard, prime dinner time.
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Post by elaine on Aug 10, 2022 2:19:52 GMT
Just a fluff question. Not really important in the scheme of things but all my waffle wisdom is gone 😉 (the rude/breakfast thread). I thought I’d put another fluff conversation out there. Have you noticed, even more so in the last month or so, that more and more establishments are reducing their hours of operation (and sometimes days) because they are so short on help? I went to go to Walgreens yesterday at about 6:00 pm last night and they were closed. They use to be open until from 8 (?) am until 9pm. I noticed this morning that they have posted their new hours 9 to 6. I work 2nd shift and always use to do a lot of my grocery shopping after midnight on my way home - now I am not sure that we even have one store that is open 24 hours, most close at 11:00 pm or earlier. This is the same with convenience stores. There is a Cumberland Farms (next to a college) that I would also often stop at on my way home if I needed something quick or sometimes gas. They were 24/7 everyday. St Michaels College is within walking distance and is a school that has a high percent of students without cars and is not really close to anything else. The store/gas station is also across from a satellite location of our hospital. It is typically “busy” anytime I stop, which is usually at all sorts of odd hours. I noticed this summer they were only open until 11pm most nights. Wondering what they will do when fall semester starts? The students are not going to be happy during exam week if they close at 11 pm. 😉😄 Not part of the poll, but do you think this is the new normal? We are moving away from expanded hours to limited hours of operation for most places? As a night owl, I love stuff that I can do at night and will miss it if it goes away. Our Dollar Tree used to open by 8 or 9 am. I went the other morning around 10 and they were still closed. Then I noticed that they had a sign up announcing their new hours - not opening until 12:00 every day! |
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Post by mrsscrapdiva on Aug 10, 2022 3:57:46 GMT
These are the ones we notice:
Walgreens
CVS
Dunkins (most close at 6pm or 7pm and only 2 in our city are open 24 hrs
Starbucks
Gamestop
Fast food like KFC or Chipolte (randomly close if they don't have workers or food)
The Mall in our city (JcPenney, Best Buy, Macy's all still have reduced hours)
One of the local Dollar Tree (randomly closes because no workers)
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Post by melanell on Aug 10, 2022 19:23:25 GMT
Not only am I seeing reduced hours, but sporadic hours with unforeseen closures.
Some small local business update their social media daily now, with what hours they will be open, but other places just throw up a sign in the window and close without warning.
I was at a dollar store with one of my kids the other day so they could buy some items they wanted for a project they were doing, and there was 1 employee there, and she had been there all day alone. She was a manager and she said that the next person due to come in called off, so she'd be closing early. She hadn't taken a break or lunch or anything all day, so there was no way she was staying any longer, never mind an entire day. And who could blame her?
But it's not just an issue for stores selling their merchandise for a buck, twenty-five---we're seeing restaurants, boutiques, grocery stores, and such struggling to keep normal or consistent hours, too. Heck, even out post office can't keep consistent hours.
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