The store opens at 7am from Monday to Saturday. Yes, seven in the morning. That’s early enough for a pre-work pastry crisis or a last-minute bag of salad for your packed lunch.
It closes at 10pm on those same weekdays and Saturdays. So you’ve got a solid fifteen-hour window to get your shopping done. Plenty of time to wander the aisles, squeeze the avocados, and question your life choices.
Sunday is a different beast. You can waltz in at 10am (a lie-in for Tesco!) and you need to be out by 4pm. This is the “Sunday trading hours” law. It’s weird, it’s British, and we all just deal with it.
But Wait—Is That Always Right?
Oh, you sweet summer child. Of course not. Bank Holidays are a rogue element. They love to mess with the schedule. Easter Sunday? The store might be completely shut. Boxing Day? A very short, very chaotic window.
My advice? Never trust a Bank Holiday opening time from memory. You’ll end up standing in a car park, crying into a bag of scratchings. Just check the website or the app. It takes ten seconds and saves your soul.
