Some Florida grocery stores will close for the Thanksgiving holiday, while others will have limited hours. Here's a list.

Thanksgiving is a government holiday. That means federal offices, courts, and post offices will be closed. Other government institutions - think the DMV and local libraries - will also be closed. In Miami-Dade, all county courts and Clerk of the Courts offices will also be closed on Friday and reopen on Monday.

If you need to make a last-minute run to the grocery store to pick up something for your holiday gathering, Walmart will not be an option for you this year, as the company told USA TODAY their stores will be closed.

Get a street-side view of the biggest Thanksgiving Day parades around the country. From New York to Chicago, Houston and more, CNN will take you there live and feature celebrity guests sharing their own family traditions.

Several grocery chains will be open on Thanksgiving, the most food-centric of the all U.S. holidays. But major retailers will largely be closed, as the trend of luring people kicking off their Black Friday sales bonanzas before the table was cleared of Thanksgiving dinner dishes has slowed considerably.

With Thanksgiving and the formal launch of the holiday shopping season, Americans will again be consumed with the annual trifecta of turkey, travel and transactions — lots of them. While most big U.S.