CNBC Smartshop
Finding it
CNBC Smartshop is in Departures in Terminal 2 at Los Angeles International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
Terminal 2 has 9 places to eat and 6 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 3:30am.
Hours against the security queue
Across the week, LAX security runs longest around 12pm at a median of 20 minutes, and lightest around 1am at 2 minutes.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's LAX wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
Terminal 2's Smartshop opens at 4am, earlier than almost anything else on this list, and stays open until 1am — a schedule built around the terminal's early international departures rather than a typical retail day. It sits among DFS Duty Free, InMotion and SPANX in the departures hall, a cluster aimed at travelers who still have shopping to do after clearing security. Despite the shared "CNBC" name, this Smartshop format is distinct from the plain CNBC newsstand across the airport in Terminal B; the two don't share a floor plan or a product mix, and Terminal 2 has only the one branch.
Other options in Terminal 2
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.