The days of popping into a grocery store for milk at 1 a.m. may be gone for good.
Grocery stores across the country are opening later, closing earlier, and eliminating 24-hour operations as they struggle with staff shortages due to the spread of COVID-19."I would say they are closing at 10 or 11 now, but they used to be open 24 hours," she said."The stores would be open till 11, and now the stores have gone down further from that," she said.Ray Dietrich, the owner of the Rivertown IGA grocery store in Ohio, reduced his hours to 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
"A lot of people are sick, and the more people that are sick, the tighter supplies get, the less truck drivers we have," Dietrich said. Dietrich says every day is an unknown, not knowing whether the truck they expected will show up. He says it's even unclear what will be on the truck."Yeah, we got openings. I won't lie to you," he said."We got an ad out right now for help wanted."
Stores are using the few night employees they do have to restock shelves, rather than work the cash registers. Dietrich says everyone at his family-owned store is working harder to compensate for the short staffing.But with so many grocery workers in quarantine nationwide, shoppers need to expect earlier closing surprises until spring. .Page-below > .RichTextModule {display:none;} .Page-below .
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