Last-Minute Shoppers: Xmas Eve Closing Times for Darien Stores

Forget someone on your Christmas list? Need to shoot out quick? Gotta get some pie crust or egg nog? Here’s what time stores around here are closing, including grocery stores (to add your store’s hours, email dave@darienite.com — quick!):

See also: What’s Open, Closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Gifts

(See also “Flowers” below — flower shops also often have other gifts)

Barrett’s Bookstore — about 4 p.m.

Browne & Co. — 3 p.m.

Chocolate Works of Darien — 5 or 6 p.m. — 203-202-7067

Couleur Provence — 5:30 p.m.

Darien Sport Shop — 3 p.m.

Darien Toy Box — probably 3:30 or 4 p.m. (Closed Christmas and on Saturday)

Everything Is Rosey — 3 p.m.

Helen Ainson — until about 3 p.m.

Kirby and Company — 3 p.m.

Orvis — 5 p.m.

Spree — 3 p.m.

Wiggles & Giggles — 1 p.m.

Flowers

• Darien Flowers — 1 p.m.
• Dom’s Garden, Flowers and Gifts — as early as 2 p.m, but possibly later (after 2 p.m., call first: 203-202-2843)
• Flowers & Flowers — 12 noon
• Gardener’s Center and Florist — 3 p.m.
• Nielsen’s Florist & Garden Shop — 2 p.m.
• Springdale Florist & Garden Center — 4 p.m.

Food

• Darien Cheese & Fine Foods — 3 p.m.
• Olivette — 4 p.m.
• Palmer’s Market — 6 p.m. (and closed on Christmas Day)
• Stop & Shop, both at Goodwives Shopping Center and in Noroton Heights — 6 p.m. (and closed on Christmas Day)
• Trader Joe’s — 6 p.m.
• Whole Foods Market — 7 p.m.

Fish:

• Darien Seafood — 6 p.m.
• Fjord Fish Market — 6 p.m.
• Fisherman’s Net — 4 p.m.

Pharmacies

• CVS — Pharmacy closes at 6 p.m., store open until 10 p.m. (open Christmas Day)
• Grieb’s — 4 p.m. (Closed Christmas Day, open Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
• Walgreen’s — 5 p.m. (Pharmacy closed Christmas Day, store open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.)