Just discovered you’re missing a crucial Christmas dinner ingredient? Here are details of when supermarkets around the area close their doors on Christmas Eve.
However carefully you plan your festive shopping, there are always those last few items you have forgotten. Perhaps you need more milk for your bread sauce, some extra sprouts - or more chocolates and mince pies if the family has been digging in early!
But what time will the shops shut their doors? Many stores in Suffolk and north Essex will close early on Christmas Eve, often at 6pm and 7pm. Here are details of the opening hours for larger supermarkets and town-centre food stores. Smaller shops and convenience stores may be open later for those real last-gasp items.
SUFFOLK
IPSWICH
Aldi, Meredith Road: 8am-6pm
Aldi, Hines Road: 8am-6pm
Asda, Bury Road: 12am to 7pm
Asda, Stoke Park: 7am-7pm
Lidl, Handford Road: 8am-6pm
Lidl, Hening Avenue (Ravenswood): 8am-6pm
Marks & Spencer, Westgate Street: 7am-5pm
Morrisons, Sproughton Road: 5am-6pm
Sainsbury’s, Hadleigh Road: 6am-6pm
Sainsbury’s, Warren Heath: 6am-7pm
Sainsbury’s, Upper Brook Street: 7am-7pm
Tesco Extra Copdock: 12am to 7pm
Waitrose, Futura Park: 7.30am-6pm
Waitrose, Corn Exchange: 7am-6pm
KESGRAVE
Tesco Metro: 6.30am-7pm
MARTLESHAM
Marks & Spencer Simply Food: 6am-6pm
Tesco Extra: 12am to 7pm
BURY ST EDMUNDS
Asda: 12am to 7pm
Marks & Spencer: 7am to 6pm
Sainsbury’s: 6am-6pm
Waitrose: 7.30am-6pm
Tesco: 6am-7pm
FELIXSTOWE
Lidl, Langer Road: 8am-6pm
Lidl, Haven Exchange: 8am-6pm
Marks & Spencer: 7am-5pm
Morrisons, Grange Farm Avenue: 5am-6pm
HADLEIGH
Morrisons: 5am-6pm
HAVERHILL
Aldi: 8am-6pm
Sainsbury’s: 7am-6pm
Tesco: 7am-7pm
LOWESTOFT
Asda: 12am to 7pm
Lidl: 8am-6pm
Morrisons, North Quay Retail Park: 5am-6pm
Morrisons, Tower Road: 5am-6pm
Tesco: 7pm
NEWMARKET
Tesco Extra: 12am-7pm
Waitrose: 7am-6pm
SAXMUNDHAM
Tesco: 8am-7pm
Waitrose: 7.30am-6pm
STOWMARKET
Asda: 12am to 7pm
Lidl: 8am-6pm
Tesco: 6am-7pm
SUDBURY
Sainsbury’s: 6am-6pm
Tesco: 6am-7pm
WOODBRIDGE
East of England Co-op, Hamblin Walk: 7am-9pm
NORTH ESSEX
BRAINTREE
Lidl: 8am-6pm
Sainsbury’s: 7am-6pm
Tesco, town centre: 6am-7pm
Tesco, Marks Farm: 6am-7pm
CLACTON
Aldi: 8am-6pm
Asda: 12am to 7pm
Lidl: 8am-6pm
Morrisons, Waterglade Retail Park: 5am-6pm
Morrisons, Little Clacton: 5am-6pm
Sainsbury’s: Christmas Eve 6am-6pm
Tesco Superstore, Brook Retail Park: 6am-7pm
COLCHESTER
Aldi, Magdalen Street: 8am-6pm
Aldi, London Road; 8am-6pm
Aldi Cowdray Avenue: 8am-6pm
Asda: 12am to 7pm
Lidl, Abbots Road: 8am-6pm
Lidl, Gosbecks Road: 8am-6pm
Marks & Spencer: 6am-6pm
Sainsbury’s, Priory Walk: 7am-6pm
Sainsbury’s, Stanway: 5am-7pm
Tesco Extra Highwoods: 12am-7pm
Tesco Hythe: 6am-7pm
Waitrose: 8am-6pm
HARWICH
Asda: 6am to 7pm
Morrisons: 5am-6pm
MANNINGTREE
East of England Co-op: 7am to 9pm
WITHAM
Aldi: 8am-6pm
Asda: 6am-7pm
Morrisons: 5am-6pm
Tesco: 6am-7pm
Read more - supermarket opening times over Christmas and New Year
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