This might be a stupid question for most of you but I would like to know: are usual stores (not places like Walmart and similar) open 24hrs in Us or you have european like times of opening/closing?
It depends...if you mean food stores, there are many open 24 hours. I know several named Krogers that are 24 hour...I know one named Randalls open 24 hours...
for drugstores...Walgreens has several 24 hours...some with the pharmacy part open 24 hours so you can get prescriptions filled at any hour...another is called CVS.
Food stores even when closed always has workers in them doing things so it was determined that it didn’t cost much to have big food and drugstores open for business at night.
This is for Houston, which while has nightlife...it is not a 24 hour town.
I am told that NYC has shopping districts that while not 24 hour, the hours are skewed so as to cater to night workers.