Editing Shopping hours (section)

===Netherlands===
Regular opening hours are Monday 11:00 - 18:00; Tuesday-Friday: 09:30 - 18:00; Saturday: 09:30 - 17:00; Sunday (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Almere, Leiden and smaller tourist towns): 12:00 - 18:00. In many other towns shops are open every first Sunday of the month (''koopzondag'').
[[File:IKEA Groningen opening hours for late 2019, Groningen (2019) 02.jpg|alt=A sign in Dutch, showing opening hours for holidays in December and January. For the dates of 25 December and 1 January, the hours read "gesloten", meaning "closed". The store is open all other days.|thumb|This store in [[Groningen]] is closed for Christmas and New Year's Day.]]
Shops are allowed to stay open until 22:00 from Monday to Saturday. Except in busy tourist areas, in or near railway stations, or for [[big box retailers]] such as Media Markt, most close at 18:00 on weekdays, and 17:00 on Saturdays, unlike Germany where retailers have taken fuller advantage of liberalization laws and most stay open till at least 19:30. Many supermarkets (including outlets of the market leader [[Albert Heijn]], several DIY stores and [[IKEA]]) stay open until 20:00, 21:00 or 22:00. Most towns have their weekly shopping evening (''koopavond''), when shops stay open until 21:00, on Thursday or Friday. In touristic towns (like Amsterdam's city centre) supermarkets are allowed to open on Sundays between 07:00 and 22:00. Many towns have one or more supermarkets (''avondwinkels'') that are open until later in the evening, occasionally all night. [[Convenience store]]s also have longer shopping hours; they are at many larger railway stations ("[[Albert Heijn]] to go") and in some busy streets.

A regular size supermarket that is open until midnight seven days a week is the Albert Heijn at [[Schiphol Airport]] near [[Amsterdam]] (in the [[landside]] area of the airport, not just for air travelers).

On public holidays, shops that close on Sundays are usually also closed, and other shops tend to have Sunday opening hours. On Christmas Day and New Year's Eve almost all shops are closed.

For specific opening hours (''openingstijden'') in the Netherlands there are several websites.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.openingstijden.nl |title=openingstijden.nl|language=nl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opentot.nl |title=opentot.nl|language=nl}}</ref>