A MAJOR supermarket is closing all 400 stores for two days at Christmas to give staff time off to spend with friends and loved ones.

Marks and Spencer has revealed to The Sun all its sites will be closed on Christmas Day and Boxing Day this year.

However, all its stores will be open between December 18 and December 22, from 6am until 10pm.

Meanwhile, the retailer said a number of its stores will be open until 10pm on December 23 and 4pm on Christmas Eve.

You should check out your local branch for its specific opening hours. You can do this with the retailer's store locator tool on its website.

It comes after a number of other retailers announced they will be closing their doors on Boxing Day.

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Aldi will pull down the shutters on all of its shops so staff can spend more time with their families.

This is on top of being shut on Christmas Day, as it is every year.

Meanwhile, Home Bargains is closing its stores on December 26 as well as New Year's Day on January 1.

Iceland will be pulling down the shutters on all of its shops to give its employees some well-earned time off.

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The frozen food specialist will close on Boxing Day, it confirmed to The Sun.

Plus, Poundland will be pulling down the shutters on all of its shops in order to give staff a "well-earned break".

The retailer will close on Boxing Day (December 26), a day which tends to be pretty busy for shoppers, as well as New Year's Day on January 1.

This is on top of being shut on Christmas Day, as it is every year.

Meanwhile, Waitrose & Partners exclusively revealed to The Sun that it will be closing all 364 of its branches on Christmas Day and Boxing Day too.

The majority of the chain's shops will then trade normal hours between December 27 and New Year's Eve. 

In other news, reporter Lynsey Hope tested all the supermarket festive pies filled with pigs and blankets – and a budget chain beat M&S.

Plus, Tesco shoppers have branded the retailer's new self-checkout tills "bonkers" – and claim they are encouraging shoplifting.

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