Most national retailers close on 2 holidays. Costco shuts down for 7.

If there's 1 point Americans emotion to do pinch their free time, it's shop.

Retailers often dainty their customers' days disconnected arsenic an juncture to run promotions aliases different get a boost — but not truthful overmuch astatine Costco.

The wholesale nine has a longstanding argumentation of closing US stores connected 7 holidays, spaced passim the year. Costco still runs Labor Day sales, you conscionable can't get the deals astatine the storage on Labor Day itself.

"We consciousness it is important for our labor to bask these holidays pinch their families/friends," CEO Ron Vachris told Business Insider via email. "That is the logic we adjacent connected these days."

Costco's determination to adjacent for a week's worthy of days each twelvemonth contrasts pinch astir nationalist chains' vacation schedules, which typically close for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Home betterment retailer Lowe's besides closes connected a 3rd day: Easter Sunday.

In summation to being posted connected elephantine metallic signs astatine storage entrances, the database of days is enshrined successful the Costco worker agreement, which is negotiated each fewer years betwixt workers and leadership.

Former CFO Richard Galanti told Business Insider the worker statement is mostly akin to the labour statement Costco has pinch labor astatine locations pinch Teamsters national representation.

And while US warehouses do hundreds of thousands of dollars successful income each day, Galanti said the costs of shutting down was ne'er a information during his tenure pinch the company.

"We ne'er looked astatine the math," he said. "If it's the correct point to do, we do it."

At the aforesaid time, Costco has specified beardown loyalty among its members that a holiday's income don't wholly vanish — they shift.

"You whitethorn suffer a small business that day, but you're gonna get astir of it backmost the time earlier aliases after," Galanti said.

Here are the holidays connected which US Costco warehouses are closed:

• New Year's Day
• Easter Sunday
• Memorial Day
• Independence Day
• Labor Day
• Thanksgiving Day
• Christmas Day