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| Hy-Vee eliminates the overnight shopping hours. |
It's happening not only at Walmart and Kroger, but it's happening at Hy-Vee as well. The company is eliminating the 24-hour service. As of February 2020, Hy-Vee will no longer operate during overnight hours at many of its locations in the Midwest.
That means if you're getting off work at 11:30pm and looking to get groceries at the local Hy-Vee in your area, you're out of luck. Some stores will began closing at 11pm and some at midnight and won't reopen until 5am or 6am.
Not all locations operate on a 24 hour a day and hours can vary at some locations.
No employees will be laid off, Hy-Vee spokesperson Christina Gayman said, but they will be moved to different shifts. Stockers and other non-public-facing employees will still work overnight.
Gayman said the decision to change store hours was the result of wanting to offer better customer service during the day, when most customers shop.
"Customer shopping decreases overnight at any 24/7 business," Gayman said of customer volume, adding that Hy-Vee is "constantly evaluating store operations."
Hy-Vee announced it was taking over several former Shopko locations in Iowa and converting them into Dollar Fresh, a more affordable grocery store model geared to smaller communities.
Hy-Vee is based out of West Des Moines, Iowa.
Forbes ranks it as the 35th of America's largest privately held companies in 2019 with revenues of $10.1 billion.
USA Today said that the stores operates in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Hy-Vee employees 84,000 workers.
There's bad news in the grocery stores. Lucky's is closing 95% of its stores leaving only less than 10 active stores in the United States.
The Boulder, Colorado-based grocery store is planning on shuttering 32 of its 39 stores.
Kroger was invested in the grocery store but backed out in 2019 leaving it to survive on its own.
Lucky's operates only two locations in Ohio. It's in Columbus and Cleveland.
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