Why do stores refill the shelves at the busiest time ???

Here in the US shelves are stocked over ngiht. However, some companies don't want to pay their workers extra for overnight work and so have started to have people stock during the day. I was a stock clerk for a grocery store and worked over night but I didn't get paid as much as some of the others (I was promoted from cashier to stock clerk) and then started not getting hours at all. I know that's neither here nor there but wanted to express how annoyed I am at my old job for that. Anyway, dry goods (which is what I stocked) stock over night and things like produce, meat, dairy, and health and beauty aides stock during the day, atleast where I used to work.

My son had a stocking job. He worked from 10 pm to 7 am. The shelves in busy stores are stocked 24/7.

We do not have 24 hour stores, the shelves are stocked early in the morning, when the stores are still closed to the public.

We were in Tesco at busy o'clock one Saturday afternoon and they were restocking nearly every aisle. Thoroughly pants!

@Traceyjayne When I worked in a Thrift Shop whenever we got new things in we would price them and put them out.

How big is the shop. I know some of the small shops only have one or two members of staff at night it could be there won’t be enough staff to restock and keep an eye on the till.

I have never understood this myself. I dont think stocking on the weekends is a good idea either as that is going to the busiest time for the stores as not so many people are working on the weekends but they seem to do it anyways. Crazy but i guess they do as they want and when told to do it by upper management.

Perhaps there's something else we don't fully understand. There are a few things already mentioned in the responses that might be factors - fewer staff at night, consideration of cost for this. Someone mentioned that big stores stock throughout the day so perhaps they do some stocking at night but they can't do all of it then. And then, I suppose, there are other factors. Like, for instance, surely they need to update their inventory files first (counts) before they bring the items out for display. So perhaps it depends on when they are able to finish this. When the items get delivered to them or arrives at their store would also be an external factor.

Maybe tou can brought that attrntion to the staff there. They could fill the shelves early in the morning around 6 where I think there wiuld be less people.

Ohh I don't have any idea why they don't restock shelves during the early hours..

Yes noticed it also here in our supermarkets