As Christmas Eve approaches, many are planning their last-minute shopping and dining outings. Here’s a guide to what’s open and closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.<\/p>\n
What’s open Christmas EveRetailersWalmart (closes early at 6 p.m.)\u00a0Publix (open at regular hours, closed at 7 p.m)\u00a0Target (open 7 a.m., close at 8 p.m.)\u00a0Trader Joe\u2019s (closes early at 5 p.m)\u00a0Whole Foods (closes early at 7 p.m)\u00a0Aldi (closes early at 4 p.m)\u00a0Restaurants\u00a0\u00a0Starbucks\u00a0(hours vary by location)\u00a0Dunkin\u2019\u00a0(hours vary by location)\u00a0Panera Bread (hours vary by location)\u00a0Cracker Barrel (closes early at 2 p.m.)\u00a0Waffle House (open regular hours)\u00a0Texas Roadhouse (open regular hours)\u00a0First Watch (open regular hours)\u00a0What’s closed on Christmas Day<\/p>\n
Retailers<\/p>\n
Publix\u00a0Aldi\u00a0Walmart\u00a0Target\u00a0CostcoBJ\u2019s Wholesale Club<\/p>\n
Government Services<\/p>\n
Post OfficesUSPS offices are closed on Christmas Day, and there is no mail delivery. The same goes for package services like FedEx and UPSDMV and Government Offices: Local government offices in cities like Fort Myers, Naples, and Cape Coral\u00a0<\/p>\n
Public Transportation<\/p>\n
LeeTran and Collier Area Transit (CAT) typically run on limited schedules or do not operate<\/p>\n
Be sure to check with individual locations for any last-minute changes to their schedules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Christmas Eve approaches, many are planning their last-minute shopping and dining outings. Here’s a guide to what’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,1191,49195,40454],"class_list":{"0":"post-94939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-christmas","12":"tag-christmas-day","13":"tag-christmas-eve"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}