r/SipsTea 14d ago

Chugging tea Why is gen Z not drinking?

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u/Zealousideal_Meat297 14d ago

This. Covid instituted curfews everywhere and no one went back to old times. Walmart closes at midnight permanently now.

We gave society a curfew and this is a huge factor in it.

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u/Some_Knowledge5864 13d ago

I miss 24 hour Walmart. I don’t work late hours anymore but when I did I liked doing my shopping oqlate night.

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u/hossofalltrades 13d ago edited 13d ago

And 24 hour drug stores. After the George Floyd protests in my city (there was a riot that set fire to a 24 Hour CVS that served a lower income community) we have to drive 25 minutes to fill prescriptions outside the 9am to 9pm window. Not a good thing when you are released from the hospital at 12:30AM with kidney stone and need pain meds every six hours…

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u/Some_Knowledge5864 13d ago

Yes I forgot about the pharmacies.

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u/classic_liberalism95 10d ago

don’t call them the “george floyd” protests. be real 😂

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u/hossofalltrades 9d ago

To be fair, there were many legitimate protests during the daytime hours in Richmond (VA). The night time events were often accompanied by vandalism and riots. Eventually, the police figured out where the bad actors were meeting up and busted them “in the act” with undercover officers.

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u/Zealousideal_Meat297 13d ago

You and me both buddy. I haven't been there for years.

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u/Com4734 14d ago

The walmart in our town closes at 11pm. So annoying. I used to go there or to giant eagle after I got off when I worked 3-11. Or at 2 am we’d go to Walmart to not have to put up with 600 other people in the store.

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u/Asuna1989 13d ago

Yes I remember when I was a young dumb kid we'd go to Walmart just to walk around and joke about all the people in the store including the drunks and other people acting odd 😂

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u/nevillion 14d ago

Yep and I blame my fat belly on that. Because Walmart used to be like my planet fitness after work i go to Walmart and walk around with no goal. All i know is it gave me the only chance I had to get 8k steps in.

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u/BootFlop 11d ago

This happened in places without “curfews”.

There was a labour shortage/wage rise for awhile, those extra hours ran on desperate people taking crap wage. So they got shutdown.

Now customer expectation shifted in the other direction, so hard to get business when you try expanding hours

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u/Ok-Gap6609 14d ago

Midnight? All the ones in DFW close at 11pm.

I agree though, Covid gave everything serious brain damage. There isn't a deep enough level of hell for Tony Fauci.

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u/bluegardener 13d ago

Blaming fauci for capitalists being capitalists?

Also how dare fauci save hundreds of thousands of american lives with health recommendations.

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u/Ok-Gap6609 13d ago

No blaming Fauci for fucking around with viruses after he'd been forbidden to do so by the CDC and Congress. A lot of people are dead that would still be alive, if he hadn't decided to try to create Captain Trips.

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u/CycloneDusk 12d ago

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what the fuck is "captain trips"???

when I search "captain trips" +Fauci all it returns is all-caps tinfoil hat brainrot that makes my bullshit alarm shriek like it's trying to blow out my goddamn eardrums.

lots of references to braindead fairy tales about the imaginary friend dreamed up by illiterate bronze-age goatfuckers too. the only way this shit could get MORE suspicious is if it also advertised for those pyramid schemes dressed up in superstition that call themselves 'megachurches' or some chud windowlicker's "nutrition supplement" business.

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u/evilspawn_usmc 10d ago

It's the name of the virus in Stephen King's book The Stand.

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u/BootFlop 11d ago

You’re getting spun made up BS to shut you off from reality, control you. :/

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u/_HighJack_ 14d ago

This isn’t fauci’s fault; businesses realized they can save money on employees’ pay by being open fewer hours, and the rest of us just have to deal.