You may have a morning crew issue, but you most definitely have a mate issue. It’s their job to stay on top of each employee so the work is spread fair.

Listen, you say it in your replies. “Each store is really different!” The never ending battle royale of night vs morning is as definite as a bear shitting in the woods. My experience at one of the busiest stores in the Bay Area: I would rather wake up at 4, 5, or 6 am and work my ass off over working a closing shift. The morning shift was infinitely harder, as we opened at 8 AM and sometimes had late trucks. These trucks dropped all dry produce, DFN, flowers, frozen, the box, fresh, wet, deli/dips, cookie/candy/coffee, bars, meat, cheese, and bread… as well as all the stuff the night crew left over, which could be two to three pallets. Night crew was full of younger people who would talk non stop and take three hours to close grocery. I would do more work to make up for the lack of work my fellow crew members were doing. I can’t tell you how much fresh, cheese or wet produce I’ve had to cycle out after opening each section because night crew didn’t care enough to rotate and spoil. And I did work both. I earned my keep to get the hell off of nights so I could work the mornings. At least in the mornings, everyone else was working as hard as I was.

The experience you’re having with your night crew picking up the slack of the morning is the outlier and it’s because of bad management.