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Finding Safety at 3:45 A.M. at the Price Chopper

Because when it comes to feeling safe, you gotta do, what you gotta do.

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Kate Speer
Oct 24, 2025
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Nothing — absolutely nothing — could compete with grocery shopping at 3:45 a.m. Of course, it took me a long while to figure this out. Months, in fact.

Photo credit: Frank Chamaki

Months spent testing and tracking every possible variable I could control at the 24-hour Price Chopper near my part time job. (I was raised by nerds, after all, and statistical …

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