Why Walmart Will Close on Thanksgiving For the Fifth Year in a Row

For the fifth year in a row, Walmart will close its doors on Thanksgiving. The Bentonville, Ark.-based company confirmed that all of its supercenters and neighborhood markets will be closed on Thanksgiving, Nov. 28, 2023, a testament to the longevity of a new post-pandemic retail trend gaining momentum across the industry. “Walmart stores will be closed once again on Thanksgiving Day so associates can spend the day with their families,” the retailer wrote in a September release on its website.   Walmart stores will open at 6:00 a.m. local time on Black Friday, November 29, according to USA TODAY. In 2019, Walmart opened stores for regular hours on Thanksgiving day, though Black Friday deals did not kick off until 6 p.m. local time. Walmart closed its stores on Thanksgiving for the first time in 2020 and has done so through this year. “It’s a thing of the past,” Furner previously said of Thanksgiving hours in a 2022 interview with “The Today Show” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. “All of our associates will be able to spend time with their loved ones this year.” Walmart said in a statement that closing stores on Thanksgiving was “just one way we are saying thank you to our teams for their dedication and hard

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