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

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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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In small city of 300-500k people places like Walmart do not close as it’s a 24/7 operation(this is standard) A crew of 10-16 folk come in and make sure the store is stocked for the next day. An hour before closing there will be an evening crew delivering and working on freight to the various isles. So this will take care of security of the various isles; next once the night crew disperses to their designated departments the individual will walk through their department checking for anything. As the store closes you have two different shifts doing security checks.

So the answer to your question is basically standard procedure by employees will take care of any security of left over customers.

Last minute customers are directed to the cashier and handled accordingly.

Worked backshift for Canadian Walmart for 6 years. It would extremely difficult to get past most diligent night crews, they tend to come in and take over.

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