Unfortunate. It was great to be able to run in there late night and pick up whatever you needed. They must really be hurting for workers. Since the stores are cleaned at night and the shelves are mostly restocked at night, it wasn’t very hard to just keep a cashier or two around so customers could shop - the lights were on anyway.
They’ll still do that. Just no customers. Weren’t many anyway.
Even though they have self check-out, it's still a pain in the @$$ because you need someone to keep an eye on the register to make sure no one is stealing. Maybe in favorable jurisdictions, they can bring the hours back because they can man it with robots and if you steal, they can send the pictures to the local police department.
Shelves restocked at night? I wish. You can’t push a cart down an aisle at Walmart or any grocery store these days without having to maneuver past somebody stocking shelves. I miss the days when the shelf-stocking happened at night.
On the other hand, if Walmart is closing nights, it may revive the sport of turkey bowling.
They cannot find enough staff
The high costs of utilities will cause many businesses to adjust practices. You ain’t seen nothing yet!