Stores Open On Christmas Day – Walmart Open On Christmas
I would love to list all the different hours for all the different stores open on Christmas Day, but that would take far too long and quite frankly, I’d rather sit on my couch and watch Scrooged with Bill Murray – my all time favorite Christmas movie.
So instead, I’ll just give you a heads up on some of the stores that are open on Christmas. As with most everything, Christmas store hours are not the same everywhere, so be sure to check with your local stores for their various Christmas Day hours. Or go by the stores sometime this week or next and see if they have their Christmas Day store hours posted.
It’s fairly safe to assume that the larger grocery store chains, like Safeway and Ralph’s, will be open at least until early afternoon. As will drug stores like Walgreens, CVS and Rite-Aid, and most liquor stores.
For those of you who wake up Christmas morning and discover you’re out of coffee – and lord knows you’ll need it that day – Starbucks will be open. Walmart is open on Christmas Day, along with K-Mart and Best Buy; that works out nicely for when you need to go buy a replacement toy and it’s electrical parts because the “some assembly required” really meant “you’ll get so pissed off with all the small parts that you’ll throw it against the wall smashing it to bits.”
But I digress…..
If you’re traveling by air on Christmas Day don’t forget about the Airport Gift Shops. Sometimes you can actually find something pretty neat in there.
And as always, Chinese restaurants are open Christmas Day. I’ve eaten at a Chinese restaurant on New Year’s Eve before, but never on Christmas; it seems to be a pretty popular thing though.
Hopefully the stars will align and you won’t have a need to go shopping on Christmas Day – of course, that would be an ideal day to miss the crowds – but if you do, now you know that all sorts of stores are open on Christmas Day.
I don’t remember so many places being open on Christmas when I was a kid. Is it for capitalistic reasons? Or are we more aware that not everyone celebrates Christmas? Or maybe they all were open and I just wasn’t paying attention because all I cared about was getting another something Barbie.
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December 24th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I have been reading about stores being open on Christmas Day and it not being right. Growing up, I remember everything used to be closed on Christmas Day (New Year’s Day, too) except hospitals. Now, with the economy being so unstable and people being laid off left and right, I understand why major stores (Walmart, Kmart, etc.) have chosen to be open. They are not money hungry, as some chatters have indicated, but they want to help their employees keep their jobs by any means possible. Some chatters have even indicated that the company should pay their employees bonuses and close Christmas Day. With what? People are not shoppping like they used to so how can these companies give bonuses to their employees?
I believe in the word of God but I also believe in the spirit of man, and woman, to survive. If it means working on Sunday, Christmas Day, etc., and I am quite sure God would not mind if I work on His Son’s birthday. Do you – especially if people are living pay day to pay day?
December 24th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Plus, not everyone is Christian in this country.
Plus, Jesus wasn’t actually born on December 25th.
December 24th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
It wouldn’t be bad to be open every holiday but christmas, oppening is a must so that shoppers can get the goodies to celebrate God’s son’s birthday.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Apparently the word of God is that you’re supposed to be so poor that you have to work on Christmas Day (which isn’t Jesus Christ’s real birth date, BTW – check your historical facts). But that’s not a problem because the Christian Bible doesn’t forbid work on holidays or the Sabbath. Only the Jewish Bible requires that. So unless you’re Jewish and it’s a “yuntiff” (Shabbos, Yom Kippur, Rosh ha-Shannah, etc.), you can work.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Not all employees–or shoppers–are Christian, nor are they required to be, last I checked. Forcing someone to work on Christmas is nasty, but closing stores without first asking for bona fide volunteers? What, exactly, does that achieve?
December 25th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Xmas has nothing to do with god. Christ was born in the spring time of the jewish calendar which does not correspond w/ 12/25. Xmas is a pagan holiday based on the winter solstice celebration for the darkest day of the year. These are not my opinions or feelings they are verifiable facts… please google them and see for yourself. Christians have no idea what this holiday is about, and ask yourself what does Satan Claws oops meant santa claus have to do with xmas? wake up!
December 25th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Hello. I am a true Christian also. However if you have a job and are required to work, by any means necessary get there. I beleive that God understands that they way this world is going you, may have to work on Christmas, or Sundays. BUT when the church is open and you are off you will need to get there. Also if it is open during the week and you are off, that may substitute for your Sunday.
Merry CHristmas
December 25th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Actually you are very wrong, Best Buy has NEVER been open on Christmas day….
I work there
December 25th, 2008 at 8:26 am
If you must shop on Christmas Day…
04:44 PM PT, Dec 23 2008 Los Angeles Times
Hoping for a sales boost, some major retailers kept their doors open on Thanksgiving. But that’s not going to happen on Christmas. So if you’re really late doing your shopping, you’ll have few choices beyond the usual minimarts, drug stores, video rental outlets and perhaps some mom and pop stores.
Blockbuster spokesman Randy Hargrove said all stores will open from noon to 10 p.m. Walgreens spokesman Michael Polzin said its estimated 1,600 24-hour stores will have pharmacies open. The remaining 5,000 stores, Polzin said, will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. without pharmacy services. Rite Aid spokeswoman Cheryl Slavinsky said only their 24-hour stores will be open. All the other stores, Slavinsky said, will close Christmas Eve at 6 p.m.
A recent report from the National Retail Federation said more consumers this year have delayed their shopping. Reports from both the International Council of Shopping Centers and Thomson Reuters on the holiday shopping season aren’t released yet. But Nordstrom spokeswoman Brooke White doesn’t need to consult them before summing up how the holiday shopping season fared in 2008.
“It’s the most difficult time we’ve experienced in retailing since the Great Depression,” she said.
Despite the grim economic outlook, no major chains appear to have decided to stay open on Christmas in hopes of luring more last-minute shoppers. Spokespeople for Wal-Mart, Target, Toys R Us, Nordstrom, Kmart and Sears said their stores will be closed on Christmas. All of them said store officials never discussed the possibility of staying open on Dec. 25.
“Our company is big in giving time to certain sacred days,” said Margie Kenney, manager of a Best Buy on La Brea Avenue. in West Hollywood. “We want to give our employees time to spend with their family.”
December 25th, 2008 at 8:28 am
One correction – Dec. 25th is not “His Son’s Birthday”. Any biblical scholar will tell you that Jesus was born in the summer and that Christmas only began when Christian leaders wanted to “convert” the Pagans to Christianity, so they chose a date in which Pagan’s used to celebrate their holiday and turned it into Christmas.
December 25th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Every store and company should be closed not only on Christmas, but Christmas Eve, Thanksgving, New Year’s, Easter, Memorial Day, 4th of July and Labor day. All veterans should have V-D day and Veteran’s day off, with pay, without comment. We should have Flag day off, to honor or flag and what we stand for. Jews should have their holiday’s off without comment. Muslims ahould have their’s off too, without comment. It’s a basic atheist belief that greed rules all. All companies are atheist in nature, bank on it.
This country was based on a common belief in God. Period! Don’t like that comment? Then leave!
And by the way, the seperation of church and state was to keep the state out of the church’s business, not the church in the states business. We could use a little God in our government, that’s what is wrong with our country today.
Also, we could use a little common sense in parenting. Keep the government out of partenting. It doesn’t take a village, it takes 2 responsible parents, a man and a woman. Not a gay couple trying to emulate something of a family. A real family made of what God created us to be.
Oh, would you please speak English so we can understand you, for cryin’ out loud? You lost the war, so get on with your life, in an American fashion or go back to your home land.
If you disagree, so be it. But don’t complain if we don’t run to protect you when all hell breaks loose and you need someone to defend you. I’ll be defending my family and my beliefs to the death…
… and so it goes!
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December 25th, 2008 at 9:04 am
I think the thing to take away from all this is that not everyone in the country even celebrates Christmas. People of other religions, nationalities, etc. And also, some people I know enjoy working on Dec 25th because of holiday pay.
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December 25th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Well Betty,
I don’t know what “Word” you read, but thankfully in my Bible, it never says that Jesus ‘birthday’ on the 25th, nor does it mention to even celebrate it. So stores staying open is a good thing… as far as your belief in the Word of God… make sure you know what is in your Word before you add your own words to it.
December 25th, 2008 at 11:27 am
I stopped by San Antonio Winer off 60/15 at 3pm on xmas eve. They were supposed to have closed at 2pm. Cars were coming by the dozens just to buy their wine which is NOT available in any local stores. This comes as amazing since there are so many BevMo stores opening up that have thousands of wines at great prices from more popular wineries from around the world. I don’t know if they decided to close but as far as I’m concerned they should have stayed open as long as people wanted to buy their product. In this economy the fact people drove so far for their product means something. It must be pretty awesome. And as a customer service it would be a crime to close and lose all the faithful customers that so love their wine.
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July 3rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Who cares when He was actually born? Dec. 25 is the chosen day to celebrate it! I have a birthday, but it is not necessarily the day it is celebrated. I am 66, and my birthday will not necessarily be celebrated on the tenth. Both of my kids and their spouses are working. My five grandchildren have no idea of what is going on with the economy. I do love all of them, and will do anything I need to do to for their survival. PERIOD!