IKEA will close all fifty two of its stores across the United States on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day in 2025, marking a complete pause in its nationwide retail operations for a combined period of forty eight hours. The closures will also extend to the company’s warehouses, delivery services, customer support centers, and associated fulfillment operations, resulting in a comprehensive shutdown of the company’s U.S. commercial activity during the two holidays.
The decision reflects IKEA’s broader operational pattern in recent years, in which the retailer has periodically suspended holiday operations to align its business schedule with annual seasonal periods and national observances. While the company has historically closed on major holidays, the 2025 schedule represents one of its most extensive full network pauses, with all locations included and all customer facing services temporarily halted.
During the closures, no online orders will be processed or shipped, and customer inquiries made through call centers, chat systems, or email will not receive responses until regular hours resume. Deliveries scheduled for the two affected dates will be automatically shifted to the next available service days. Warehousing and distribution centers will also be inactive, including facilities that support online order fulfillment, bulk deliveries, and commercial partnerships. This means that product movement within the supply chain will pause for the duration of the closures, affecting internal logistics and outgoing shipments.
For customers, both physical and digital purchasing options will be unavailable during the shutdown period. Store locations will not allow entry, self service areas will be inaccessible, and planning and consultation departments typically offered in larger locations will be offline. The pause will also temporarily interrupt access to in store amenities such as IKEA restaurants, cafes, and food markets.
The company’s national retail calendar for 2025 resumes immediately following each holiday, with stores reopening on the days after Thanksgiving and Christmas according to their standard operating hours. Services such as order processing, delivery scheduling, and customer communications will restart once operations resume. Any delays caused by the temporary shutdown are expected to be resolved as the company returns to normal capacity.
The closures will affect regions across the United States, including major metropolitan areas where IKEA stores generate substantial customer traffic during the holiday shopping season. While the two closed days fall on holidays when many retailers traditionally adjust schedules, the full pause across all divisions represents a coordinated nationwide action. The decision also places IKEA among the large retailers that will not participate in Thanksgiving Day shopping hours, a trend that has grown in recent years as more companies limit operations on that date.
IKEA’s holiday calendar for 2025 otherwise remains consistent with typical year round operations, and the company is expected to continue offering promotional activity, product releases, and seasonal inventory adjustments before and after the closures. Customers planning purchases, deliveries, or store visits surrounding the holiday periods may need to adjust timing to account for the two day shutdown.