I don’t know about Saturdays, but Sunday morning at Walmart is the best time to go around here. Everyone else is in church! Weekdays during work hours are the worst. All the old people have social hour blocking all the aisles 
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Friday, like clockwork, house cleaning & wash the linens (start at 11 done by 1 - 2 adults, 1400 sq ft home). Tuesdays wash my clothes. Groceries whenever I feel the need.
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Only thing I really keep to schedule on is garbage and recycling. Otherwise, other things get done as needed.
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I 100% approve of your method. 
Just bought more socks for my Mr. because the laundry frequency increased recently. I do laundry when the bin starts overflowing.
As for the other chores… The floors get dysoned whenever they look dusty. I do carpets once in a while. Groceries run to Costco is on Saturdays, timed in such a way that when we are done, the wine tasting rooms in the nearby garages begin to open. 
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Yeah, when we make a run on the weekend now and again to Costco, we time it too. But, we time it around the craft brewery openings out that way instead of wine tasting rooms! 
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Does your dh help you?
Maybe I am just a slow housekeeper. We have 1,600 sq ft or so, but I can’t clean all of it in two hours. But, I am working by myself.
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It takes two hours to chom chom my furniture and vacuum the 3850 SF. It stinks. But I am allergic to cats and I have four, so…. It gets done every week.
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We are retired, no particular routine… except more intense housecleaning prior to company. Laundry is easy/peasy, with washer and dryer upstairs. We just run a load as needed. (We have separate hampers for underwear/socks and clothes.)
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Thursday is cleaning and laundry day. Due to DH’s decades of Mon-Fri travel, I made it a rule to keep Fri-Sun completely free of chores/shopping, and this pattern has stuck. We “market” shop for groceries based on what we plan to cook over the next couple of days. I’ve never had a grocery shopping routine other than no shopping on the weekends. In retirement, DH and I share the cleaning chores and plan meals and food shop together. Because we are now splitting our time between two homes where both fridges need to be empty when not occupied, we don’t stockpile food, and we eat up all our “stores” in the couple of weeks before we shut down each place, so we’re learning to market lightly as needed.
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I tidy up on Monday or first thing Tuesday for the cleaning woman. Laundry gets done on Saturdays, unless we make other plans and it gets pushed to Sunday. In the summer we have CSA on Wednesdays and Farmer’s Market on Saturday morning. I run to the grocery store when we need stuff they don’t supply. In the winter I go a little more often, but don’t have a particular time. Dishwasher runs every day after we go to bed.
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Oh yes - my husband likes to have company, because that means I will likely spend more time cleaning the house. (He’s still working, I’m retired).
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I can share this. Apparently there is NO routine for deep cleaning in some areas of our house. I had to move a lot of furniture from our bedroom this weekend in preparation for painters to come (not the large stuff but smaller items/furniture. We have wood floors, no rugs. OMG enough dust bunnies to fill a dust bunny farm!!! Clearly I do not take time to move furniture and clean behind it. It was pretty awful!
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I do the same thing—pickup and clear surfaces on Wednesday because my cleaners come on Thursday! I have definite “clean-freak” tendencies and am working on letting it go.
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For many years (when I was working full time with kids home) we had housecleaner every other week. Back then we did have a ritual of “clearing up” the night prior, so they cleaners concentrate on cleaning. Gotta admit, I loved the feeling of coming into a declutter ed and clean house afterward.
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I’m a bit of a neat freak. Friday is laundry day and DH’s day to clean the bathroom. I clean the bathrooms on Thursdays. Whole house cleaning happens on Sunday. We have midweek chores too (dust mopping/cleaning the hardwood floor, vacuuming rugs, trash bin to the curb). Our house is small so chores don’t take too long especially when we all pitch in. Sunday chores only take an hour or so.
I’m a fan of the 5 second - 1 minute rule. To avoid clutter and lots of routine clean up, take the 5 seconds- 1 minute to take care of it as it’s happening. So in other words, lots less to pick up, put in the right spot, etc. if you take just seconds to do it right away. Can’t say my H abides by my rule though…
Would I love to have a cleaner house? Sure. Am I willing to give up hours more a week and have to give up precious free time to do it? Nope. We’ll stay picked up and semi-clean.
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My H and I are both pretty ocd. We clean and pick up constantly. I could host a gathering at my house pretty much anytime because it always looks good. We have cleaners every two weeks to do the heavy cleaning. My kids are pretty good about not leaving their crap around because they know I’ll move it. Everyone does their own laundry and we order groceries online. I can’t imagine how I’d have gone back to work full time without being a well oiled machine at home. I don’t necessarily do things on the same day each week, but just as needed.
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By myself, headphones on with good music, and I just keep moving - because it’s a weekly routine I hardly ever need a deep clean, and we do keep the place tidy during the week…dishes done, counters wiped, etc. 2 rooms hardly ever are used (200 sq ft total) - our Ds room and her “reading room” - so those are quick…dust, vac and hardwood floor mop, done.
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Monday is laundry day. Tuesday I have a cleaning person, during the two years of the pandemic when she wasn’t coming I still stuck to the routine of Tue house cleaning. I knew if I didn’t keep the schedule weeks would pass without cleaning. I like the clean everything in one day so I can enjoy an entirely clean house.
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We both hate housework, and I loved Peg Bracken’s books for relieving some of my guilt decades ago.
H asked me to set up a maintenance schedule for the new house, inside and outside. He knows that without a written schedule too many chores won’t get done. We often don’t agree on the what, how or when, so I don’t know if it will work and reduce conflict. 
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