Kroger Hours: Today’s Open & Close Times, Holiday & 24-Hour Hours

What Time Does Kroger Open and Close? Store Hours Today

Kroger runs roughly 2,700 supermarkets under its own name and a long list of regional banners, and each store sets its own schedule. We looked at the Kroger listings that appear on Google Maps for three metro areas on October 13, 2026, and the closing time was the part that moved.

The live status bar near the top of this page applies a 6:00 AM to 11:00 PM pattern, which matches the most common Kroger schedule in the sample. Use it as a starting point, then confirm with the store page if you are shopping close to either end of the day.

Kroger Pharmacy Hours and Sunday Pharmacy Schedule

Pharmacy counters keep a separate, shorter schedule, and they are the department most likely to catch people out on weekends. Every Cincinnati pharmacy we checked on October 13 showed an 8:00 PM close that evening.

• A midday break of 30 minutes is part of the posted schedule at this pharmacy, so a prescription pickup at 1:15 PM can hit a closed window.
• Sunday is open but shortened: five hours less than a weekday at this store, ending at 5:00 PM.
• Pharmacy phone numbers are separate from the store line. In Cincinnati they differ by a few digits, so call the pharmacy number on your store page, not the front desk.

Kroger Fuel Center Hours: 24 Hours or Closing at 10 PM

Searches for Kroger gas hours land on a department that does not follow the grocery clock. In Cincinnati the fuel centers split almost evenly between round-the-clock and a 10:00 PM close.

Five of the nine fuel centers in that list ran around the clock, which means the old idea that fuel stops at the store's closing time does not hold. The Marburg Avenue center stays on while its supermarket shuts at 11:00 PM. Prices are shown on the listing with a note that they are over 24 hours old, so rely on the pump display.

Is Kroger Open 24 Hours?

The honest answer is: almost never for the supermarket itself, often for the gas pumps.

• Every supermarket we saw in Cincinnati, Atlanta and Houston had a posted closing time between 10:00 PM and midnight. None showed 24-hour status.
• Kroger Fuel Centers are the 24-hour exception: five of nine in the Cincinnati sample are open all day and night.
• Some Kroger stores close at midnight and reopen at 6:00 AM, which gives a six-hour overnight gap, not a 24-hour operation.
• A few stores in other regions may differ, so check the store page rather than assuming.

Kroger Pickup Hours, Customer Service Desk and Liquor Store

Kroger's ClickList pickup, the customer service counter and the liquor department all depend on the local store.

• Pickup: many Kroger store listings show a Pickup option on Google Maps, but the available time slots are chosen in the Kroger app or website when you order. Slots are not printed as a fixed schedule on the store page, so we do not list a pickup closing time.
• Customer service desk: it is a store counter, not a call center. Its hours are shown only on individual store pages, so ask the store before a large return late in the evening.
• Liquor: some stores list a separate Kroger Liquor Store or Beer & Wine listing on Google Maps. State alcohol law decides what can be sold on Sundays and late at night.
• The Little Clinic, which sits inside some stores, kept a 7:30 PM close at the Marburg Avenue location on October 13, which is earlier than both the pharmacy and the store.

Is Kroger Open on Thanksgiving? Hours and Pharmacy Closure

Kroger stays open on Thanksgiving Day, but only for part of it, and its pharmacies close for the day. The exact cutoff is the part that changes from year to year and store to store.

Kroger's holiday store hours page says stores are open on Thanksgiving Day with an early close and that pharmacies are closed. The page carries no year, and the closing time on it has not been stable: we read 3:00 PM there on October 13, 2026, while search snapshots of the same page show 4:00 PM, and 2025 news coverage reported 5:00 PM at some stores. Kroger had not announced 2026 Thanksgiving hours when we checked on October 25, 2026. Thanksgiving 2026 falls on Thursday, November 26; treat 3:00 PM as the earliest likely close and check your store listing that week.

Kroger Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Hours

Christmas is the clearest closure on the Kroger calendar, and the eve before it is an early close.

• Kroger has long been closed on Christmas Day, and this is the one day we could not find any report of stores opening.
• Christmas Eve times come from news coverage and not from a posted Kroger page, so treat 6:00 PM as a guide and look at your store listing.
• New Year's Eve, December 31, is a regular or slightly early day. New Year's Day, Friday, January 1, 2027, is open.

Is Kroger Open on Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th and Labor Day?

Outside Thanksgiving and Christmas, Kroger treats holidays as ordinary shopping days with minor local adjustments.

For Easter Sunday 2026, a Kroger spokesperson said a majority of its grocery stores would be open during regular business hours. That reads as open for most, with room for the exceptions the word majority implies.

Kroger Hours Near Me and the Banners That Share the Name

Because hours differ by address, the most useful search is for your own store.

• Use the Kroger store locator at kroger.com/stores/search and enter your ZIP code. The page shows store, pharmacy and fuel hours separately.
• Google Maps listings show closing time, an hour-by-hour week and a marker for holiday-affected days such as Columbus Day, which we saw flagged on Monday, October 12.
• The Kroger family also runs banners such as Ralphs, Fred Meyer, QFC and Harris Teeter, which have their own pages in this directory and their own schedules.