Is Target Open or Closed on Thanksgiving Day 2025?
Last-minute shoppers on Thanksgiving Day 2025 will be out of luck if they head to Target or a number of other retailers.
Is Target open or closed on Thanksgiving Day 2025? Target is closed, according to USA Today, which says that Walmart, Costco, Sam's Club, Home Depot, and Lowe's are also closed on Thanksgiving 2025.
- There are 1,989 Target stores in the United States, according to the company.
- "With stores in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, 75% of the U.S. population lives within 10 miles of a Target store," the company says.
Thanksgiving is a national holiday.
"Most Americans are familiar with the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving Feast of 1621, but few realize that it was not the first festival of its kind in North America. Long before Europeans set foot in the Americas, native peoples sought to ensure a good harvest with dances and rituals such as the Green Corn Dance of the Cherokees," according to the Smithsonian.
"The first Thanksgiving service known to be held by Europeans in North America occurred on May 27, 1578, in Newfoundland, although earlier Church-type services were probably held by Spaniards in La Florida. However, for British New England, some historians believe that the Popham Colony in Maine conducted a Thanksgiving service in 1607," the site explains.
"Festivals of Thanksgiving were observed sporadically on a local level for more than 150 years. They tended to be autumn harvest celebrations," the Smithsonian explains.
Target's History Dates Back to the Early 1990s, When It Was Called the Dayton Dry Goods Company
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Did you know that Target used to be called Dayton Hudson Corporation?
In 1902, the future Target Corporation "was founded by George Draper Dayton," the company says. It was called the Dayton Dry Goods Company.
"After a decade of rapid growth, Dayton Dry Goods Company was renamed The Dayton Company to better reflect its wide assortment of goods and services. It became commonly known as Dayton's department store," the company says.
"Dayton Hudson Corporation was renamed Target Corporation to better reflect its core business, and the Dayton Hudson Foundation (founded in 1918 as the Dayton Foundation) was renamed Target Foundation," Target explains on its website.
"Target's long history of sourcing innovation began when The Dayton Company became a founding member of the Retail Research Association (RRA), a cooperative of 18 leading retailers across the U.S. In 1918, the association expanded and was renamed the Associated Merchandising Corporation (AMC), creating the world's largest buying group of independently owned stores," according to Target.
By 1919, the company was using airplanes to deliver merchandise. The company started to expand in 1954. "The company's first expansion beyond downtown Minneapolis took place when a six-story, full-line Dayton's opened — and thrived — in Rochester, Minnesota," Target says. Two years later, "The Dayton Company expanded to the suburbs of Minneapolis with the opening of Southdale Mall, the nation's first fully enclosed, air-conditioned shopping center," according to Target.
"It took 30 years to reach $10 billion in annual sales and just 13 years later Target surpassed the $50 billion mark," Target wrote.