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All the Most Important Store Holiday Hours for 2022
With the holiday shopping season quickly approaching, many people are thinking about store hours and how to work around them for their gift-giving needs. If you wait until the last minute to grab a gift for a loved one, you decide you want to make some special cookies the night before Christmas or you want to do some belated Christmas shopping after you open gifts, you should know what times stores are open. Here are the holiday hours you can expect for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Superstores
Superstores are large stores that offer a huge variety of products. Whether you need groceries, clothes, kitchen appliances or something else entirely, superstores can help guide you in the right direction.
- Costco: One of the most well-known warehouse stores on the planet, with hundreds of locations across the United States.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Target: A superstore offering clothing, groceries, household appliances, electronics and a variety of other product categories.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- Walmart: One of the largest retailers on the planet, known for offering “a little bit of everything” in its grocery and superstore shops.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 12 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Sam’s Club: The warehouse version of Walmart, offering many of the same products as Walmart.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- BJ’s: A warehouse store, with over 200 locations across the East Coast.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Department Stores
Department stores have a lot in common with superstores, but department stores tend to be centered around goods such as clothing and jewelry, without the focus on groceries many superstores have.
- Macy’s: One of the most well-known high-end department stores, with a history stretching back to 1858.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Sears: Another long-running department store, with its roots in Chicago in 1892. Its parent company went through Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018, but it returned in a reduced capacity in 2019.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Nordstrom: A luxury department store chain that started as a shoe store but now sells many types of clothing and accessories.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- JCPenney: A midscale department store that often anchors shopping malls, with a number of departments, including contracts with Sephora locations.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Kohl’s: The largest department store chain in the United States, Kohl’s has over 1,100 locations in every state except Hawaii.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Beauty Stores
Beauty stores are focused on helping you look your best, which may include makeup, hair products and more. Many stores carry beauty products, but beauty stores are focused entirely on the concept.
- Sephora: A multinational upscale beauty retailer headquartered in France, with contracts with almost 350 brands.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- Ulta Beauty: A general beauty retailer that prides itself on offering both low-end and high-end cosmetics and beauty products.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- The Body Shop: A British cosmetics and skin-care company that primarily focuses on natural cosmetics products.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Sally Beauty: This well-known beauty chain in the United States is a go-to for hair-care products.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Electronics and Office-Supplies Stores
Electronics and office supplies often go hand in hand. It’s common for companies to sell both, especially when it comes to home electronics such as printers.
- Best Buy: A consumer electronics retailer perhaps most well known for its helping hands, called the Geek Squad.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- GameStop: A video game retailer that carries both new and preowned video games, consoles and accessories.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- Staples: A retail company that was one of the first-ever office superstores, now operating over 1,000 stores across the United States.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Office Depot and OfficeMax: After the merger of Office Depot and OfficeMax, it is now the largest office-supplies chain in the United States.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Apple: One of the most beloved brands for phone and computer products, with physical locations often found in shopping malls.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Clothing Stores
Clothing stores are some of the most helpful retailers for last-minute Christmas gifts. Whether you’re looking for something edgy, something for children or something in between, you’re sure to find the perfect gift.
- Journeys: A specialty retail company that focuses primarily on shoes for both adults and children.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Gap: A clothing and accessories retailer that provides options for the entire family, from young children to mature adults.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- J.Crew: A classic, stylish apparel company that focuses on ensuring all its products have an on-trend design.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Loft: Simple, classic styles geared toward women from many demographics, with an emphasis on feminine style.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- The Children’s Place: A clothing store primarily geared toward younger children, with unique and cost-effective styles.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Foot Locker: A shoe company providing all sorts of athletic styles for men, women and children.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Hot Topic: Edgy clothing for teens and adults, including apparel and accessories from many pop-culture staples.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Anthropologie: A clothing retailer that prides itself on high-class products, with options that include a significant home decor line.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Forever 21: One of the most well-known young-adult brands of the 2000s, specializing in cute clothing at low prices.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Home and Garden Stores
Home and garden stores offer plenty of hardware and outdoor products. Whether you need to fix a bicycle or you’re looking to build a shed, these stores will provide both the tools and materials you need to do it.
- Home Depot: The largest home-improvement retailer in the United States, it sells a little bit of everything.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Lowe’s: The specialty home-improvement store is a go-to for many people, but it has a smaller market share than Home Depot.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
- Ace Hardware: The largest non-grocery retail cooperative in the United States, offering a wide variety of hardware products.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Crafting Stores
Crafts are another common Christmas gift. If you’re looking for something to give or to add the final touch to a project you’re working on, you’ll want to visit a crafting store.
- Michaels: One of the largest providers of crafting products in North America, with around 1,200 stores in the United States and Canada.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Jo-Ann: A specialty retailer focused on fabrics and related crafting options, including sewing and quilting products.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Hobby Lobby: A general crafting retailer that gears its offerings toward small crafting projects.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- Dollar Tree: A dollar store you may want to visit for small tools and supplies, including things like safety pins.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Grocery and Errand Stores
If you need something extra for your Christmas dinner, you may want to stop by one of these stores. From all kinds of ingredients to beauty products and home goods, these stores offer what you need for your recipe.
- Kroger: Also referred to as Fry’s Grocery, Ralph’s and many other brand names, this is the largest supermarket chain in North America.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Albertsons: With over 2,200 stores and 270,000 employees, Albertsons is the second-largest supermarket chain in North America.
- Christmas: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Christmas Eve: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Safeway: Another brand that is part of the Albertsons family, Safeway was one of the first self-service grocery stores in the United States.
- Christmas: Closed
- Christmas Eve: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Vons: Another brand under the Albertsons umbrella, Vons functions in Southern California and Southern Nevada, with around 300 locations.
- Christmas: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Christmas Eve: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- CVS: It’s more accurately categorized as a drugstore, but CVS also provides a limited variety of grocery products.
- Christmas: Possibly reduced hours (call for more information)
- Christmas Eve: Possibly reduced hours (call for more information)
FAQs
Not always. Especially if a store is franchised, it reserves the right to decide on its own hours on Christmas and Christmas Eve. Some stores may also choose to close early because of low stock or a lack of workers. If you plan to visit a store in your area, you may want to call and check their hours before you head out.
Not usually. Many stores change their hours for Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas and Christmas Eve, but it’s uncommon for stores to adapt their hours for other winter holidays, such as Kwanzaa and Hanukkah. There’s no such thing as too much preparation, however, so you can always contact local stores for more information about their hours surrounding other holidays this season.
It’s always a good idea to check out a store’s hours on its website. You can also usually find a phone number for a specific location, so you can call them directly and ask about their hours. Remember to check Rakuten to see whether you can save money on your in-person purchase, even if you’re using a store that’s not on this specific list. |
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