Costco evening employee here:
Yeah, we check those at closing time. As well as behind the mattresses, the bathrooms and anywhere else someone might reasonably hide. There are generally people stocking stuff for 3-4 hours after the store closes and from 5 hours before the store opens in the morning.
There’s a small window when the place is completely empty, but it’s only from about midnight to 4am.
It’s possible. It happened frequently enough at IKEA that it became an internet meme/challenge and they had to start prosecuting people who did it.
The general store employees have a big “not my job” attitude about it. If it’s time to clock out, it’s your problem that you’re still in the store after closing. Not likely to confront you about it unless you are wandering the aisles.
Cleaning staff will probably tell someone if they find you hiding out.
Security guards will be actively looking for you and also search in obvious places like tents and sheds that are set up indoors, as well as behind shelving units, in the backrooms, etc.
That thing is one bathroom away from becoming a 240,000 dollar tiny house
Found a picture of OP:
You might get away with it, but here’s the part that really sucks: you’d be stuck in the shed until they opened the next day. No riding a bike down the aisles, not even any trips to the bathroom. The alarm system likely has motion sensors, and the cops are called automatically when the alarm goes off.
They probably have employees stocking at night. So no security system unless you try to open the wrong door, but you’ll still probably get caught.
Good point. That may be the case as well. Either way, no bathroom breaks!
There’s enough birds in a hardware store that I very much doubt they have motion detectors.
Sure they can. Just aim/calibrate/whatever so they only detect stuff at floor level, or beyond a certain size.
…birds? Just flying around the store crapping everywhere until they start pining for the fjords? 🤨
When you have mega high ceilings and big doors that stay open, birds indoors are a thing.
Yeah. Like, birds love hardware stores. You can’t keep them out since they can fly in through the customer doors or through the loading docks they use for the big stuff.
Birds getting into things like hardware stores, large grocery stores, or shopping malls is a thing.
It’s particularly difficult with a grocery store since they tend to have piles of vegetables and fruit sitting on easy to see tables. I once saw a sparrow sitting on the birdseed shelf looking absolutely smug.https://www.audubon.org/news/what-happens-when-birds-invade-stores
You could just do like here in Denmark: not have ridiculously tall customer doors and keep the loading docks closed when they’re not actively in use 🤷
I’ve lived here for all of my 41 years and I’ve never seen a bird in a grocery store and only twice total in hardware stores 😆
Just because the store closes doesn’t necessarily mean it’s empty, there’s probably people restocking and cleaning in there
This. The parking lot always has cars because of the night shift restocking, cleaning, etc.
Not Costco but I walked into Walgreens last night about 10 minutes before close (paycheck didn’t come through until fuckin’ 9:45) to get some smokes and while I was standing at the register, they shut off the lights and only noticed me when someone came to lock the front door.
I get the feeling nobody is gonna be looking in the display shed for you. The only thing on their mind is closing out and going home. lol
Idk, the staffing at a Costco might be better.
If your a supervisor at a drug store, unless it’s stocking day, you have yourself and a cashier, maybe another for some overlapping hours who is tasked with re-stocking/facing. The techs and pharmacist pretend like they aren’t associated with the rest of the store and just walk right out without a care in the world. So at the end of the night, it’s up to one individual to ensure the pharmacy drawers are removed, the pharmacist locked properly, and the store is clear.
I love how you used pharmacist as both a location and a person in the same paragraph, and now I’m picturing them locking the pharmacist in a little cage after someone chases after to catch them when they just walk out.
Oh wow, that is confusing.
It’s very important to lock the pharmacist up each night. Otherwise they might talk to people and get some funny ideas about becoming a clinical or industrial pharmacist.
