Empty boxes of shotgun shells? grin Or Next cameras. Ring. Axis. Presence. We’ve had shaming on social media that has led to fines for people who don’t pick up after their pets. Pet owners have been much better behaved over the last three years. I think the social media has been more effective than the fines.
I agree, and keep up with the shelf, aisle, and ceiling signs.
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Oh no, changing the signage is way too much work. Besides, this way we spend much more time wandering the store.
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Your supermarket is open 24 hours? Poor workers! Even with shift work that is a long shift for those overnight people. Never thought there was much demand for groceries overnight.
You comment though does remind me of this Asian market that already has way too packed aisles that also has workers rse-stocking callously. They will leave their cart or pallet of goods right in the middle and often blocking the aisle. At least the average American grocery stores are wide enough that someone restocking a section doesn’t mean it’s cutting off complete access.
Not sure where you are, but here most supermarkets are 24/7.
Not much shopping being done at 2 am (though I’m not there . . . maybe there is?) which is why I wish they would restock/reconfigure at 2 am.
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Some of us older guys are up to pee for the second time at 2am. If the grocery is not to far away we might as well go shopping before we go back to bed.
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Haa
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You may be fortunate enough not to have a prostate. On the other hand, from your profile picture, 2am is about the time a cat runs across your sleeping body.
Ha!
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Where are you? We don’t have any in NY/CT area that I know of.
Philadelphia previously, it’s burbs now. I’m surprised to hear NY/CT doesn’t have 24/7 supermarkets; I just take it for granted here.
I’m in the burbs, so they may in the city.
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Fake stuff.
Big shop today for my meal plan while my wife is gone for a week’s girl’s holiday. When she’s away I eat things she doesn’t like, doesn’t like the smell of, or that I’m testing for one reason or another. I also do some cooking ahead to feed the freezer and of course prep for her first dinner home.
One item in the plan is red beans and rice, partly for a lunch for me and partly to feed the freezer. Andouille sausage is of course in order. There were twenty four pegs (I counted) of various sorts of chicken, turkey, tofu, and soy “substitutes” for andouille. One peg for real andouille sausage that was empty. Came home and checked Amazon where it costs three times as much as at the grocery. So tomorrow I work the phones and find a local source that works for other errands.
Other than that all the same peeves listed above. Nothing new and nothing fixed.
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Heh. I normally buy Greek yogurt (literally and figuratively, Total being my preferred brand), but the other day I wanted just one regular size container of plain old plain yogurt, but one without the copious pectin, gum and/or other stabilizers that have become ubiquitous among the mass market brands. (Not on principle, I wanted it specifically so I could strain it for the whey.)
And… among the literal 30 aisle-feet of yogurts in the dairy section and the 18" width of shelf space in the “organic” refrigerated case, there was not a single 6-8 oz cup of plain (non-“jellied”) yogurt to be found. (They did have quarts, but I didn’t want to buy 4-5 times as much as I needed.) I did find small containers of every combination of flavors-plus-ghastly-amounts-of-sweetener imaginable, plus quite a few with all sorts of bizarre “mix-ins” and a small handful of non-dairy “yogurt” (plus a token container or two of kefir), but no plain yogurt in sight. Made me long for the days when you had to search high and low for any yogurt at all… at least you knew “plain” would be the primary option. sigh
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For a while in the mid-2000s, the 74th Street Fairway gave 24/7 a try, but I guess (not really surprisingly) they got so few customers in the midnight to 5AM timespan that they basically cut out those hours. And apparently what is now my local Stop & Shop was once 24/7, but they cut back to 6am to midnight which, frankly, seems more than adequate, and is better than many places…
I don’t know why, exactly, but NYC has become much less The City That Never Sleeps than it once was. Many/most neighborhood “bodega”-type places are open 24/7, but the rest of the city seems to tuck itself in at times that still surprise me (having lived here all of my adult/most of my entire life…) It’s not as bad as Philly in the 1980s – when pretty much all (of the relatively few) restaurant kitchens were closed by 8pm and they all but rolled up the sidewalks at 9pm except for a few places near the myriad colleges 
– but still, it’s kinda weird…)
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That peeves me as well, although I’m usually looking for a little bit of PLAIN yogurt WITH fat. Not without fat.
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THIS!
Especially the small containers.
After I struck out in the non-health-food/organic dairy section, I went to the organic area (all the way on the other side of the store 
), where I knew I would (or rather expected to) find Brown Cow plain, whole-milk yogurt, even if I’d had to pay more for it… But nope - lotsa maple, lotsa something else - maybe cherry?, and a scatterin of others. But no plain. I admit that section of the shelves wasn’t fully stocked, and I didn’t read all the shelf tags closely, but I did glance at them and don’t think I saw one for “plain”…
Thanks to neighborhood demographics that include quite a few Turks, a noticeable handful of Pakistanis, and a large number of a variety of Eastern European/former Soviet immigrants, I can get all sorts of yogurt (though I’m not sure about small containers), not mention various and sundry other fermented milk products like kefir, ayran, etc. at the smaller grocery stores around here – including things like 5 lb tubs of mainstream-dairy whole milk yogurt – I was just taken aback not to see even a single small container of plain yogurt anywhere among the huge number of various other “yogurts” at a fairly big (for NYC) chain supermarket…
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You GO Turks! Have I mentioned yet today that my son lives in Turkey? So much inspiration.
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The local grocery (Giant Food) in my old neighborhood in Fairfax VA their trucks (four days a week if I recall) came in around midnight and they’d stock shelves over night. The manager put in a bene-sug (beneficial suggestion program the company had then - I don’t know if they still do) that he sit at customer service where there is a register and the keep the store open 24/7. After much discussion it ended up 24/5 - they closed Sunday morning around 2a, opened during the day on Sunday, and opened again about 5a. Costs went up due to a few hours of labor here and there, shrinkage increased slightly, but increased revenue and margins increased by much more - no reduction in usual hour revenues. Fairfax is far from as densely populated as NYC. I believe the biggest issue was regular staffing.
My current grocery is open 16 hours per day, less on Sunday. On the rare occasions I am out and about in the middle of the night the lights are on and people are stocking.
