Over 60 stores closed on Thanksgiving Day 2018

More than 68 stores have now confirmed that they will be CLOSED on Thanksgiving Day 2018! The list includes retail, grocery, warehouse, home improvement, pet and craft stores and more. Does this make you want to support these stores more or less?

Posted 2:40 p.m. Oct 9, 2018 — Updated 2:40 p.m. Oct 9, 2018

More than 68 stores have now confirmed that they will be CLOSED on Thanksgiving Day 2018! The list includes retail, grocery, warehouse, home improvement, pet and craft stores and more.

Does this make you want to support these stores more or less?

BestBlackFriday.com personally reached out to representatives from each of these stores over the past month and this the largest list of closings they have had in October. In fact, they expect it to grow to over 100 national and well-known regional stores by Thanksgiving Day.

The list below even has some traditional and big box local grocery stores including Publix, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Costco and Sam’s Club. There are also multiple local malls that are closing on Thanksgiving Day.

There will be more grocery stores added to this list based on the closings last year. Many grocery stores in the area usually close early on Thanksgiving Day. We'll have a full list of those grocery and drug store closings and early closings posted as soon as the stores release their holiday hours.

List of Confirmed Thanksgiving 2018 Retail Store Closures

A.C. Moore

Abt Electronics

Academy Sports + Outdoors

Ace Hardware

Acme Tools

Allen Edmonds

American Girl

At Home

AT&T (Company-Owned Stores)

Barnes & Noble

Big 5 Sporting Goods

BJ’s Wholesale Club

Blain’s Farm & Fleet

Bob’s Discount Furniture

Burlington

Christopher & Banks

Cost Plus World Market

Costco

Craft Warehouse

Crate and Barrel

Dillard’s

dressbarn (majority of stores)

El Dorado Furniture

Fleet Farm

Gardner-White Furniture

Guitar Center

H&M

Half Price Books

Harbor Freight Tools

Hobby Lobby

Home Depot

HomeGoods

Homesense

IKEA

JOANN Stores

Lamps Plus

Lowe’s

Marshalls

Mattress Firm

Menards

Micro Center

Music & Arts

Nebraska Furniture Mart

Nordstrom

Nordstrom Rack

Office Depot & OfficeMax

P.C. Richard & Son

Patagonia

Pep Boys

Petco

PetSmart

Pier 1 Imports

Publix

Raymour & Flanigan Furniture | Mattresses

REI

Sam’s Club

Sierra Trading Post

Sportsman’s Warehouse

Sprint (Retail Stores Closed Unless Mall Dictates Otherwise; Mall Kiosks May Open)

Staples

Stein Mart

Sur La Table

The Container Store

The Paper Store

TJ Maxx

Tractor Supply Co.

Trollbeads

Von Maur

West Marine

Local Malls Closed on Thanksgiving Day 2018:

* Cary Town Center Mall in Cary, NC (Although stores with outside mall entrances may still be open, especially the larger retailers)

* Cross Creek Mall in Fayetteville, NC (Although stores with outside mall entrances may still be open, especially the larger retailers)

* Triangle Town Center Mall in Raleigh, NC (Although stores with outside mall entrances may still be open, especially the larger retailers)

* Alamance Crossing in Burlington, NC (Although stores with outside mall entrances may still be open, especially the larger retailers)

All 63 malls in the country that are run by CBLProperties (including those listed above) will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. See the list of malls on their website.

Findings from the BestBlackFriday.com research:

- Thanksgiving Blue Laws for Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine prevent stores in those states from being open on Thanksgiving. Do you think North Carolina should have a similar law?

- Many stores have issued official statements about why they are closed on Thanksgiving day including Costco, who shared, “As an appreciation of all the hard work our employees do over the course of the year, we have always closed on Thanksgiving to give our employees a chance to relax and enjoy time with their families.”

- According to a recent September, 2018 survey by BestBlackFriday.com, over 47% of Americans dislike Thanksgiving openings.

* Strongly Favor Thanksgiving Day Openings: 11.16 percent

* Favor Thanksgiving Day Openings: 13.51 percent

* Indifferent to Thanksgiving Day Openings: 27.67 percent

* Dislike Thanksgiving Day Openings: 18.67 percent

* Strongly Dislike Thanksgiving Day Openings: 28.99 percent

What do you think? Do you want stores to be open on Thanksgiving or should they stay closed until Black Friday?

If you prefer online shopping, you will find that many brick and mortar stores that are closed on Thanksgiving Day will still have super online sales. And online shopping is certainly picking up for Thanksgiving Day. BestBlackFriday.com shared that in 2017, online sales were up 18.3% over 2016, according to Adobe.

You can see more details about the national store closings and their research at BestBlackFriday.com.

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