Yes, but you live in the Big Smoke. Who knows what nameless activities are carried on in the dark of night, needing gasoline and munchies, in Canada’s megalopolis?
I live in a smaller centre, where the downtown closes up early every night. On the outskirts, there are likely 24 hour gas stations to assist benighted travellers who are just trying to get back to the bucolic peace of the farm.
Not any more, thankfully. Within driving distance if one were so inclined – a drive I haven’t made in probably a year now – but I have retreated to the bucolic countryside.
Pre Covid the supermarkets around me (a smallish city in Scotland) were open 24 hours but they are now all 6am to midnight.
Not sure if you class them as stores but the only places open 24 hours I can think of where you can buy things are McDonalds and a couple of petrol (gas) stations while the later often have a convenience store this is closed overnight.
Out motorways (equivalent ot interstates) are a bit different to in the US, while there are a few stores near junctions most junctions are a mile or more from the nearest stores and nothing off the highway is advertised. Instead there are “service stations” which are like rest stops but (by law) have to provide hot food, petrol (gas) and toilets 24 / 7 they also have a small convenience store. Nearest one to me is about 20 miles away.
It’s still there at the top of the hill where the old Armstrong School Administration building used to be. I never go there but sometimes drive past it along the highway.
It’s the season where we stay with the kids/grandkids near Augusta Georgia. No less than 7 Waffle Houses inside on 10 miles, one grocery store (more of a real big convenience store), the usual collection of fuel stops/snacks, and one Walgreens are 24/7 (pharmacy closed at 8pm).
the Waffle Houses are an occasional guilty pleasure. The two eggs, hash browns, two strips of bacon, whole wheat toast, juice and coffee enhanced by doubling the hash browns for $0.50 and adding the covered and smothered options. Usually my first and last full meal of the day!!
Wisconsin…Kwiktrip and Cenex.
Covid closed down the 24-hour Walgreens, CVS, Wal-Mart, supermarkets, McDonalds, and finally even the 24-hour pancake house. The only things left open are some gas stations/convenience stores, a nearby truck stop, and maybe a couple of Denny’s off the Interstate.
I remember when a drunk driver plowed into my house in the middle of the night, and I found an all-night Lowe’s so I could get stuff to board up some windows. Those were the days!
I believe my town still only allows pharmacies to be open 24 hours a day. Everything else has to be closed between 1AM and 6AM. Other towns here on the island have their own rules, some have had a 2AM cut off… Over on the mainland there’s a truck stop on US1 in MA that may still be open 24 hours.
Here in the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC the only 24-hour stores are a few CVS Pharmacy locations. It definitely seems like it was more common pre-pandemic.
in Ohio and Missouri, there’s QuikTrip open 24/7
As I said in my posts, this isn’t true. There’s a 24-hour laundromat near me and 15 convenience stores near me. Most of the convenience stores are part of a gas station.
Nothing within a 25 minute drive, which would get you to a truck stop on the interstate and maybe some other gas stations. In fact, nothing is open after five p.m. here in the village except our one bar, which is open until midnight (1 a.m. Fri & Sat).
That’s so sad. What happens if you are trespassed/86’d from that one bar?!
Our airport is open 24/7, but I doubt if the facilities outside security stay open past the last scheduled departure (12:30 or 1 am). As a passenger, you won’t get past security after the last flight - until sometime before the first flight leaves at 5:30 or 6 am. I’ve arrived at 5 am - finding my favorites still closed.
I suspect some would stay open later (on both sides of security) if a storm or other event was delaying flights for many hours (and there was staff willing to work overtime).
There are the usual convenience stores. I could drive some distance (less than 10 miles, likely) to get to a 24-hour grocery store or a 24-hour pharmacy.
Most grocery stores near us are open until midnight, at least, which is good enough; I went to the (now closed) 24-hour grocery store in the middle of the night precisely once, decades ago.
There’s a restaurant that is open 24 hours, not that far; we’ve never taken advantage of it.
By contrast: about a year ago, we were in Florida dealing with family stuff. No grocery stores were open past 9 PM (or maybe 10, if we drove a little further). Which was actually fairly inconvenient for us; there was one evening where we decided we needed ice cream… and the only place open was a 7-11. On the plus side, they actually had a pretty decent selection of the stuff!
This was in a pretty majorly developed area, too (Palm Beach County). I guess that so much of their population is retired, they simply don’t need to be open late, unlike us DC-area going-24-hours-a-day folks.
Huh: I stand corrected on the grocery stores. There is definitely a 24 hour CVS not too far, but the nearest Giant that is 24 hours is in Bethesda, MD (we are in Virginia), and I could not find a Safeway that was open 24 hours. I didn’t even find a 24 hour WalMart (the one near us was 24 hours, a decade or so back).
Dunno, I’m not much of a drinker, and my bedtime is 9:30. People go there to watch sports on tv and commune with their neighbors. It is a very local bar. Sometimes we go for pizza night.
Two of the local pharmacies used to be open 24/7, they were Walgreens, but I think both close late now.
They used to be the place folks could go if they got a late prescription from the ER, Now you wait until daytime if you need something.
One of the Wal-Marts used to be 24/7, but it closes at 10 now. Funny thing is, many years ago it would close at 10, and even be closed three days a year, Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. Then it went to 24/7, now it closes again, and I think it’s open on Cgristmas.
I thought the WalMart in my town was open 24/7, but Google says they close at 11pm. Maybe they cut back due to lack of staff like others have said.
There is a Circle K convenience store near me that’s open 24 hours. Other gas stations / convenience stores are as well; I didn’t check all of them.
There is nothing sadder than a delayed flight and a closed airport bar.
By law ordinary stores around here can’t open longer that 8AM to 9PM (I think they are the hours) but there are a couple of 24/7 drugstores. Possibly you could get a liter of milk at one.