Supermarket Christmas opening times Leeds 2020: when Morrisons, Aldi and Waitrose are open over festive period

With Christmas fast approaching, many households in Leeds are starting to get their food and drink supplies in order for the festive season.

Yet even the most organised of spreadsheet shoppers are sometimes in need of an emergency dash to the store for items such as cranberry sauce or a bottle of wine.

Fear not though, as many supermarket chains extend store opening hours to satisfy customer demand at this time of year, so shoppers can browse the aisles at their leisure.

Here are the Christmas opening hours for Aldi, Lidl, Sainsburys, Waitrose, M&S, Tesco, Asda and Morrisons near you.

Aldi

Aldi has extended its opening hours from 7am - 11pm Monday to Friday in the run up to Christmas. Check out the times below.

Check your local Aldi store’s opening times HERE.

Lidl

Lidl has also adjusted its times over the coming weeks.

Check your local Lidl store’s opening times HERE.

Sainsbury’s

Sainsbury’s has extended its opening hours from 21 December to 23 December in a decision which will see 90% of its superstores open from 6am to midnight.

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Check to see your local Sainsbury’s store’s opening times HERE.

Waitrose

Waitrose will extend its open hours to 11pm in the days leading up to Christmas Eve, with some convenience shops open until midnight.

The majority of its stores will be open from 7am-6pm on Christmas Eve and closed on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, except for Welcome Break shops.

On New Year’s Eve, shops will typically be open between 8am-6pm. The majority of shops will be closed on New Year’s Day. Those that will be open will have varying open hours.

Check your local Waitrose store’s opening times HERE.

Marks & Spencer

Between 21-23 December, around 400 M&S food halls will stay open until midnight in the days leading up to Christmas Eve. Its other stores will stay open until 10pm.

The food halls will close at 6pm on Christmas Eve and remain closed on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Check your local M&S store’s opening times HERE.

Morrisons

Morrisons has released later closing times for its stores from 18-20 December, with many shops staying open until midnight.

Check your local Morrisons store’s opening times HERE.

Tesco

Tesco is yet to confirm its opening hours for the festive season yet the supermarket is expected to open its doors to 300 stores for 24 hours a day from 14-24 December.

The rest of the chain's stores will operate between 5am-11pm in the same period.

All of its shops - Express, Metro and Superstores - closed on Christmas Day in 2019 and reopened Boxing Day morning.

Check your local Tesco store’s opening times for the next seven days HERE.

Asda

Asda hasn’t revealed its festive opening hours and isn’t expected to until two weeks before Christmas at the earliest.

Yet it has confirmed it will not open its stores on Boxing Day to allow its thousands of staff the chance to stay at home with their loved ones in what Asda said was “recognition of their efforts as key workers during the Covid 19 pandemic”.

Most of its stores were open from 6/7am to 6/7pm on Christmas Eve last year, remained closed on Christmas Day and were again opened between 9am and 6pm on Boxing Day.

Check your local Asda store’s opening times for the next seven days HERE.