These Retailers Are Expected to Be Closed on Thanksgiving 2026
Wondering which stores will be closed on Thanksgiving Day 2026? Check out our list!
Get ready for Thanksgiving 2026! 🦃
In order to help you make your holiday shopping plans, we’ve compiled a list of stores and retailers that are expected to be closed on Thanksgiving Day!
While stores haven’t released their hours for Thanksgiving 2026 yet, we anticipate that many of them will maintain holiday hours similar to 2025. Most retailers have been following a predictable pattern since COVID shook things up in 2020.
Be sure to bookmark this post and keep checking back to see the updated list as Thanksgiving 2026 approaches.
Note that some store hours may vary based on location and are subject to change.

These were closed on Thanksgiving Day in 2025:
- Academy Sports + Outdoors
- Ace Hardware (most locations closed)
- ALDI
- American Eagle
- Apple Store
- Ashley Furniture
- At Home
- Barnes and Noble
- Bath & Body Works
- Belk
- Best Buy
- BJ’s Wholesale Club
- Bloomingdale’s
- Boscov’s
- Burlington
- Carters
- Costco
- Cost Plus World Market
- Crate & Barrel
- Dick’s Sporting Goods
- DSW
- Five Below
- Gap
- Golf Galaxy
- Hobby Lobby
- The Home Depot
- Home Goods
- HomeSense
- Hy-Vee
- IKEA
- JCPenney
- Kohl’s
- Lowe’s
- Macy’s
- Michaels
- Nordstrom
- Old Navy
- Petco
- PetSmart
- Publix
- REI
- Sam’s Club
- Sephora
- Target
- Trader Joe’s
- ULTA Beauty
- Walgreens (many locations closed, but most 24-hour locations will remain open)
- Walmart
- Williams Sonoma
- Winn-Dixie

These stores were open for in-store shopping on Thanksgiving Day 2025:
Pharmacies:
- CVS – many locations will remain open with modified hours
- Walgreens – most 24-hour locations will remain open
Retail:
- Bass Pro Shops – 9 AM – 6 PM
- Cabela’s – 9 AM – 6 PM
- Dollar General – hours may vary by location
- Dollar Tree – hours may vary by location
- Family Dollar – hours vary by location
Supermarkets:
Hours will vary by location. Call or check your local store for specific details.
- 7-Eleven (Varies by location)
- Acme Markets (Most open 7 AM – 4 PM)
- Albertson’s (Most open 6 AM – 4 PM)
- Amazon Fresh (Most open 8 AM – 4 PM)
- Cub Foods (Hours may vary by location)
- Fairway Market
- Food Lion (Closing times vary)
- Fry’s (Closing at 5 PM & most pharmacies will be closed)
- The Fresh Market (Hours may vary by location)
- Giant Eagle (Closing at 3 PM & pharmacies will be closed)
- Giant Foods (reduced hours & some pharmacies may be closed)
- Hannaford (reduced hours &many pharmacies will be closed)
- Harris Teeter (Open until 2 PM, pharmacies closed)
- H-E-B (Open 6 AM to 12 PM, pharmacies closed)
- Jewel-Osco (Hours may be reduced)
- Kroger (Some stores open until 5 PM & most pharmacies will be closed)
- Market District (Open 6 -3 & pharmacies will be closed)
- Meijer (Open 6 AM – 5 PM)
- Price Chopper (Most stores open until 3 PM. Massachusetts stores will be closed.)
- Ralphs (Most stores close at 10 PM & pharmacies will be closed)
- Safeway (Many stores will be open with reduced hours)
- Save Mart (Hours may vary)
- ShopRite (Select locations open with reduced hours)
- Sprouts Farmers Market (Open 7 AM – 2 PM)
- Stop & Shop (Open with reduced hours)
- Vons (Open with reduced hours)
- Weis (Open with reduced hours)
- Wegmans (Most stores close at 4 PM, pharmacies will remain closed)
- Whole Foods (most stores open with modified hours)
- WinCo (all locations will close by 3 PM)


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