Eli5: How do supermarkets like walmart make sure everybody left the store before they close?

Question

Do they have employees walking down each isle at closing? Isn’t there a chance somebody still walking on a different isle then they are?

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Answer 1

At closing time, stores do remind customers of closing time and encourage them to be done with their shopping.

But ultimately, stores don’t have to do much. Customers already have the incentive not to remain in the store, because if they hid somewhere until everyone was gone, they would now be locked inside the store with no way out. You could certainly have a whole night in the store for yourself, but ultimately, why would you want that? You would just be arrested in the morning anyway. So the incentive actually rests with *customers* not wanting to be in a store past closing time.