When you’re busy preparing your Thanksgiving feast, it can be helpful to know which stores are open on Thanksgiving Day. While you can head to some grocery stores on November 23, many will be closed. And the last thing you need is to be hopping from place to place for last-minute ingredients for your Thanksgiving recipes or gifts for family members.
That’s why we found out if Walmart, one of the most popular superstores, will be open on Thanksgiving Day. This way, you’ll know if you can get everything you need at the one-stop-shop or will have to plan to make multiple stops. We get it – some things can’t wait until stores open on Black Friday!
Is Walmart Open on Thanksgiving 2023?
We have some bad and good news for you. Walmart locations across the United States will be closed on Thanksgiving Day in 2023, a Walmart spokesperson confirmed to Good Housekeeping, but the superstore will reopen at 5 a.m. local time on the day after Thanksgiving, a.k.a Black Friday, so you can do all that shopping you want.
And let us tell you, Walmart has some great Black Friday deals to take advantage of this year, so it's probably best you save your energy on Turkey Day for what's to come on Friday!
Katarina Avendaño (she/her) is the senior SEO editor for Good Housekeeping, where she writes and edits lifestyle content and contributes to SEO strategy. Before joining GH in 2021, she was the digital editor at New York Family, where she was responsible for the website’s content and strategy. Katarina received her bachelor's degree in communications and Spanish from the University of Washington.
