Holiday hours are the product. The closed sign is doing the work.

A national holiday is when consumer services reveal whether they employ people or just operate a URL. The URL is up. The people are not. Delivery estimates quietly slide into Tuesday. Chat bots apologize in a tone that was trained on a weekday. None of this is a scandal. It is a calendar.

The ugly version is the company that advertised holiday deals while the warehouse is on a skeleton, then blamed the customer for expecting a Monday. The decent version posts the hours, takes the L, and comes back tomorrow. Score is mixed because the information is usually findable and the expectation-setting is usually a lie. If you can wait, wait. That is the whole review of Labor Day as a checkout flow.

If a human has the day off, do not punish the webpage for telling you so. Tomorrow is a business day.