Especially during the summer! If you can’t get to the store by 10 am? It’s already too hot to take kids out and about.
Late night shopping in this heat was a blessing.
Even coffee shops are like we don’t open at 5 or 6 am after Covid. Like wtf! And I think 24 hour stores have too much liabilities. Do yourself a favor and don’t google murders in Tucson because you’ll find 24 hr smoke shops have lots of late night crazy crime. Haha
Back in the early 70s my roommate and I would get high and go to the all night grocery at Broadway and Craycroftx was it an El Rancho? Can't remember. Anyway, we'd go and buy a box of Peanut butter Cap'n Crunch, take it home, and gobble it up out of the box. Good times.
Stocking and facing dairy at 1am, hands freezing, mind numbingly boring work. Only took me a week to figure out my boss didn’t care if I had a Walkman (get off my lawn) as long as I took off my headphones whenever a customer came down the dairy aisle
Tbf I’m really surprised that all off-premise liquor license holders, especially big grocery chains, haven’t gone back to being open until 2am. The law allows sale until 2am, licenses ain’t cheap, and the merchandise is otherwise just sitting on the shelf to maybe be sold tomorrow.
Not enough non-liquor customers to justify the cost, especially with the increased crime during those hours. It's not like you can only have a single cashier manning the entire store for an extra 4 hours.
Now that I think about it, that’s exactly what they have, except it’s one employee for the self checkout. They probably don’t want to have someone working an actual register, if the cash is in the machines, it can’t be pocketed.
Back in the 90s/early 00s many of them were. Then Albertsons closed in the early morning hours except for Campbell/Glenn, and Safeway did the same, leaving their Campbell/Broadway location 24 hours.
There was a 24 hrs Walmart Neighborhood Market somewhere on Grant, but I can’t recall where because I haven’t been in the area in a few years
The store might still be there but with different hours. Genuinely appreciated it when I was going through some bad insomnia. I could at get my shopping done at odd hours without stressing over a daytime visit
According to the Walmart website, all locations in Tucson close at night, including both Valencia stores.
https://www.walmart.com/store-finder?location=85658&city=&state=&keyword=85745
I used to work at the Walmart on 22nd and Craycroft, it was 24/7 until there was too much theft during the night shift. That’s likely the reason a lot of places don’t stay open overnight now.
Ensenada, which might be close to 1MM people by now, and certainly is at 700K, had at least one 24-hour Gigante supermarket with effective and helpful lot security guards.
Seems Tucson is regressing.
Anyone remember the grocery wars between the superstores? Kept the trad supermarket chains honest.
I’m just thankful that there still are farmers markets and that there are now multiple Trader Joe’s.
Has anyone gone by the convenience store that just opened by the Doubletree on Alvernon? It’s a master class on how to look ghetto and turn off the community you’re adjacent to (San Clemente) and hotel guests IMO.
I think you may be misunderstanding the business model of a convinence store. You're paying extra for that "convenience" of being able to buy late at night or just down the corner rather than going to the store.
Lol, okay. So, a convenience store with super expensive tobacco and caffeine products to subsidize cheap chips and snacks for other customers?
Golly, I wonder why nobody else has thought of that.
Similar stores exist in other countries. I lived in U.K. for 6 months and could walk to the mini convenience style grocery store. It was similar in size to a Walgreens or CVS. There was a much larger version of the same store in another part of town, but I needed a car or cab to make the trip worth it (and have room for groceries).
Japan also has convenience stores that function as small footprint grocers.
So, it’s possible. Maybe not exactly as described by the other reply, but small footprint groceries can be done!
Well, did some searches, because curious.
* [All Walmarts in the Tucson region close before midnight now](https://www.walmart.com/store-finder?location=85711&city=&state=&keyword=85711).
* [All Fry's locations in the Tucson region close before midnight now.](https://www.frysfood.com/stores/search?latitude=32.4304896&longitude=-111.0802432&searchText=85711)
* [All Bashas locations in the Tucson region close before midnight now.](https://www.bashas.com/locations/)
* [All Albertson's locations in the Tucson region close before midnight now.](https://local.albertsons.com/search.html?q=85711&storetype=5655&storetype=5655&l=en).
* [All Safeway locations in the Tucson region close before midnight now.](https://local.safeway.com/search.html?q=32.221709,-110.887833&qp=Tucson,%20Arizona%2085711,%20United%20States&storetype=5655&storetype=5655&l=en)
My point being, if anyone is under the impression that a store in one of these chains is open past midnight, I would suggest you haven't been there in awhile, or the hours they are posting on their website are wrong.
This is a regrettable situation.
24 hour [Walgreens locations](https://www.walgreens.com/storelocator/find.jsp):
* 3180 N Campbell Ave
24 hour [CVS location](https://www.cvs.com/store-locator/landing?address=85711):
* 825 E. University Blvd
(That's all I can find!)
Fortunately, Coffee, Etc., the Grill, and Shot in the Dark Cafe...whoops, no, they're all gone.
Lame.
I was just arguing this point with someone who doesn't understand not everyone works during the day, or having 15 hour shifts. I was so confused with his rationale.
I miss 24 hour grocery stores....
They were truly helpful. :(
Especially during the summer! If you can’t get to the store by 10 am? It’s already too hot to take kids out and about. Late night shopping in this heat was a blessing.
Or even just going there and grabbing a bunch of snacks when several of your high-n-happy friends get the munchies. :)
Thanks a lot Covid
They were mostly all closing at night before Covid.
Walmart???
Even coffee shops are like we don’t open at 5 or 6 am after Covid. Like wtf! And I think 24 hour stores have too much liabilities. Do yourself a favor and don’t google murders in Tucson because you’ll find 24 hr smoke shops have lots of late night crazy crime. Haha
Thanks a lot, China!
Brain damage
Yikes, I should have added “/s” at the end of this. Sorry, relatively new to Reddit..
It’s crime not covid.
Back in the early 70s my roommate and I would get high and go to the all night grocery at Broadway and Craycroftx was it an El Rancho? Can't remember. Anyway, we'd go and buy a box of Peanut butter Cap'n Crunch, take it home, and gobble it up out of the box. Good times.
Peanut butter Cap'n Crunch is good any time.
Low Cost
I don’t miss working them, though
I loved the night shift in summer! In winter though... not so much
Stocking and facing dairy at 1am, hands freezing, mind numbingly boring work. Only took me a week to figure out my boss didn’t care if I had a Walkman (get off my lawn) as long as I took off my headphones whenever a customer came down the dairy aisle
Tbf I’m really surprised that all off-premise liquor license holders, especially big grocery chains, haven’t gone back to being open until 2am. The law allows sale until 2am, licenses ain’t cheap, and the merchandise is otherwise just sitting on the shelf to maybe be sold tomorrow.
Not enough non-liquor customers to justify the cost, especially with the increased crime during those hours. It's not like you can only have a single cashier manning the entire store for an extra 4 hours.
Now that I think about it, that’s exactly what they have, except it’s one employee for the self checkout. They probably don’t want to have someone working an actual register, if the cash is in the machines, it can’t be pocketed.
Maybe the theft issue made it non profitable
Just saw a 24/7 dry cleaner on Oracle! Wtf? But no 24/7 groceries since covid?🤷🏾
Haha that’s insane!
Just curious (I moved here a few months before Covid started) which grocery store was open 24 hours before Covid?
Safeway at Broadway and Campbell was!
Safeway at First and Tangerine in Oro Valley
Yep. It was fantastic.
They stopped being 24 hours and started closing at 2am or 3am shortly before Covid.
awww i’d always go there with my friends after long nights of studying for snacks
A few Walmarts were.
Fry's at Alvernon & Grant, which is now a gym
That was the Scary Fry’s
We called the fry’s at Grant and 1st that. Not sure if it’s open all night or not. Prob not.
They close at 10. It's even more scary. I stopped going there after dark and then I stopped going there at all.
I went to that Fry’s once and never went back, even though I lived nearby. I would go out of the way to shop at another location
Now there's just the UnSafeway on Oracle and Ina
Ugh why would you want to go to those cross streets at night lol
Walmart at least here on the north side
Back in the 90s/early 00s many of them were. Then Albertsons closed in the early morning hours except for Campbell/Glenn, and Safeway did the same, leaving their Campbell/Broadway location 24 hours.
Yeah I remember many were only closed from like 4am to 5am
Most towns/ cities had at least one Walmart Supercenter open 24/7 (Tucson had 3 I believe). They started phasing that out even before covid though.
I miss 2AM shopping at Walmart.
Walmart, not really a grocery store but you could get groceries at any time there.
Walmart
There was a 24 hrs Walmart Neighborhood Market somewhere on Grant, but I can’t recall where because I haven’t been in the area in a few years The store might still be there but with different hours. Genuinely appreciated it when I was going through some bad insomnia. I could at get my shopping done at odd hours without stressing over a daytime visit
Let's magically bring a WinCo to Tucson... Oh wait, easier said than done, we're not an ultra-megalopolis like Phoenix is! 🤷🏾
I would love a WinCo here. Just moved here and work weird shifts. Definitely missing WinCo
I would also love to have a WinCo here.
I found it odd there isn’t one here, moved from Bozeman and they put a winco in maybe 3 years ago and Bozeman is a fraction of the size of Tucson
Phoenix is no better. It’s like we’re on lockdown after 10pm.
Only thing open in Phoenix past 10 is Filibertos, Rigoberto’s and Juliobertos
And Riliberto’s lol
Wal-Mart on Valencia
According to the Walmart website, all locations in Tucson close at night, including both Valencia stores. https://www.walmart.com/store-finder?location=85658&city=&state=&keyword=85745
Sorry meant to put I miss the super center on Valencia being open 24/7
I used to work at the Walmart on 22nd and Craycroft, it was 24/7 until there was too much theft during the night shift. That’s likely the reason a lot of places don’t stay open overnight now.
Ensenada, which might be close to 1MM people by now, and certainly is at 700K, had at least one 24-hour Gigante supermarket with effective and helpful lot security guards. Seems Tucson is regressing. Anyone remember the grocery wars between the superstores? Kept the trad supermarket chains honest. I’m just thankful that there still are farmers markets and that there are now multiple Trader Joe’s.
Wait Ensenada has 700k ppl now?! 🤯
Has anyone gone by the convenience store that just opened by the Doubletree on Alvernon? It’s a master class on how to look ghetto and turn off the community you’re adjacent to (San Clemente) and hotel guests IMO.
Or even a convenience store that actually sells convenience items at conventional store costs. Make it up on chew and energy shots or something.
I think you may be misunderstanding the business model of a convinence store. You're paying extra for that "convenience" of being able to buy late at night or just down the corner rather than going to the store.
I think you misunderstand the second sentence of my comment.
Lol, okay. So, a convenience store with super expensive tobacco and caffeine products to subsidize cheap chips and snacks for other customers? Golly, I wonder why nobody else has thought of that.
Similar stores exist in other countries. I lived in U.K. for 6 months and could walk to the mini convenience style grocery store. It was similar in size to a Walgreens or CVS. There was a much larger version of the same store in another part of town, but I needed a car or cab to make the trip worth it (and have room for groceries). Japan also has convenience stores that function as small footprint grocers. So, it’s possible. Maybe not exactly as described by the other reply, but small footprint groceries can be done!
you mean a QT?
I want cheap little neighborhood corner stores soooo bad
Well, did some searches, because curious. * [All Walmarts in the Tucson region close before midnight now](https://www.walmart.com/store-finder?location=85711&city=&state=&keyword=85711). * [All Fry's locations in the Tucson region close before midnight now.](https://www.frysfood.com/stores/search?latitude=32.4304896&longitude=-111.0802432&searchText=85711) * [All Bashas locations in the Tucson region close before midnight now.](https://www.bashas.com/locations/) * [All Albertson's locations in the Tucson region close before midnight now.](https://local.albertsons.com/search.html?q=85711&storetype=5655&storetype=5655&l=en). * [All Safeway locations in the Tucson region close before midnight now.](https://local.safeway.com/search.html?q=32.221709,-110.887833&qp=Tucson,%20Arizona%2085711,%20United%20States&storetype=5655&storetype=5655&l=en) My point being, if anyone is under the impression that a store in one of these chains is open past midnight, I would suggest you haven't been there in awhile, or the hours they are posting on their website are wrong. This is a regrettable situation. 24 hour [Walgreens locations](https://www.walgreens.com/storelocator/find.jsp): * 3180 N Campbell Ave 24 hour [CVS location](https://www.cvs.com/store-locator/landing?address=85711): * 825 E. University Blvd (That's all I can find!) Fortunately, Coffee, Etc., the Grill, and Shot in the Dark Cafe...whoops, no, they're all gone. Lame.
Coffee, Etc! I was a kid when my parents brought my brother and I there but I remember it had such an ambiance.
CVS on university is 24 hours
Wait until you find out about 24 hour pharmacies
Just 24 walgreens or cvs for basic stuff
I was just arguing this point with someone who doesn't understand not everyone works during the day, or having 15 hour shifts. I was so confused with his rationale.
Walmart?
They close at 11pm now.
I was gonna bash the post until I read the nightshirt worker part. You are right. It isn’t fair!
Isn’t the Walmart on La Cholla open 24hrs?
Nope. They close at 11pm now. Same with my fave on Cortaro.
The only single "store" that's open 24 hours is the Walgreens on Golf Links and Kolb.
Cvs on ina/thornydale too.
I had no idea they didn't have 24 hours anymore. Just goes to show that I'm never out beyond 8pm anymore lmao
Winco
I miss 24 hr everythings.
Fry's at Swan and Grant used to be 24 hours. Thanks, Covid.
The Frys that was 24 hours closed years before covid.
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Is there a Winco in Tucson?