It’s a couple of days now since your Christmas dinner, but hopefully you’ve still got plenty of leftovers to keep you ticking over.
However, whether you had a traditional turkey or something a little more left-field, inevitably you will at some point have to venture out for more food.
Unfortunately, the bank holidays can play havoc with supermarket opening times, especially in years like this when Christmas Day falls on the weekend.
This gives many people a four-day weekend, but also potentially causes more disruption – here’s the key information on when supermarkets are open today.
Opening hours depend on the size of store. Superstores are likely to be closed on Boxing Day, while Express stores will be open for limited hours.
Superstores:
Express stores:
Opening hours may also vary by store location. You can find out your local store’s opening hours at Tesco’s store locator here.
Like Tesco, Sainsbury’s store opening hours depend on the size of the shop.
Superstores:
Local stores:
Opening hours may vary by location, so check the store locator for the latest details.
Most Morrisons stores should follow this schedule:
You can check your local Morrisons store’s opening hours here, as they may vary.
Many Asda stores will follow this opening schedule:
Asda advises that times vary across their supermarkets and to check your local store’s opening hours. You can do that here.
Most Aldi stores will open at the following times:
Aldi advises that opening hours may vary, so check your local store’s opening hours here.
Most Lidl stores will follow this schedule:
Lidl encourages customers to check the opening times of their nearest store using the store locator here.
Here are the opening hours for most Waitrose stores:
Usually, the whole of the UK gets three bank holidays during the festive period.
These are on Christmas Day (25 December), Boxing Day (26 December) and New Year’s Day (1 January) – Scotland then gets an additional day off on 2 January.
However, when these dates fall on a weekend, the holidays are moved to substitute days to ensure people don’t miss out, which tends to result in a bumper long weekend for celebrations.
This year, both Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fell on Sunday, so these dates were moved – it means that the UK-wide festive bank holidays will be as follows:
Because the bank holiday on 2 January clashes with the usual date of Scotland’s additional day off, this will be moved to Tuesday 3 January.
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