Bay Area grocery stores open on Thanksgiving Day
FILE-People gather for Thanksgiving dinner sitting around the turkey. (Photo by Kirk Mckoy/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
OAKLAND, Calif. - Cooking a Thanksgiving dinner usually means making multiple trips to the grocery store for those vital ingredients that somehow didn’t make it into the shopping cart the first time.
While many people may get all their supplies in order ahead of the actual holiday, there’s always the possibility of needing to make a last-minute trip on that last Thursday of November. Thankfully, many major chains plan to open, but will operate on a shortened holiday schedule.
Here’s a list of stores that will be open, and their Thanksgiving operating hours:
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Lucky and FoodMaxx
All Bay Area Lucky and FoodMaxx stores will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The two stores, which are owned by the Save Mart Companies, have maintained the same holiday hours for years.
Safeway
Most Safeway stores in the Bay Area will close at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The company advises customers to visit Safeway.com to look up their local Safeway to confirm the store’s hours of operation.
Whole Foods
7 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Sprouts’ Farmers Market:
7 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Here are the stores that will be closed on Thanksgiving:
- Trader Joe’s
- Costco
- Sam’s Club
- Target
- Walmart
- Farmer Joe’s
- Berkeley Bowl locations will be closed on Thanksgiving, and will also close at 8 p.m. on Nov. 26.