SF News Old Navy Flagship Store on Market Street Joins SF Retail Exodus The Old Navy flagship store on Market Street at Fourth, which has been in that location since the 1990s, will close on July 1, adding to the deepening retail exodus crisis on mid-Market and in Union Square.
Business & Tech Gap Inc. Lays Off 500 Employees at Corporate Offices In SF and NY The layoff announcements continue this week with San Francisco-based Gap Inc., which managed to have a stellar year amid high consumer spending in 2021, followed by a serious slump so far this year.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Gap Closes Flagship Store At Powell and Market Hundreds of San Jose residents are livid at PG&E for a 44-hour power outage, a case of bubonic plague has popped up at South Lake Tahoe, and Gap Inc. is shutting down three of its of four SF stores.
SF News Gap To Replace 200 Underperforming Stores With Old Navy And Athleta Locations Gap Inc. is making bold moves to address declining retail sales in their longstanding stalwart brands, Gap and Banana Republic, announcing Wednesday that they're closing 200 underperforming stores and will then open 270
SF News Gap Continues To Struggle As Shoppers Reject Their Conformist Message As you've likely heard, Gap is in trouble. The San Francisco-based clothing company faces declining sales and is on the verge of closing dozens of stores as shoppers look elsewhere for their sartorial
SF News Could Gap Be Declaring Bankruptcy Soon? One of San Francisco's bigger employers, Gap Inc., could potentially be seeking bankruptcy protection according to the Chronicle in a speculative piece that came out just before the holiday weekend. Though the official
SF News Gap Lays Off 250 Employees, Announces Closure Of 175 Stores Major news for a major Bay Area employer today as Gap, Inc. announced that it would be shuttering a swath of its stores across the U.S., and laying off a segment of
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA's Giant Richard Serra Sculpture Blocking Traffic On Howard Street Large-scale sculptor Richard Serra is known for his enormous COR-TEN steel installations big enough for dozens of people to walk through and stand within. And now, one of his pieces from the last
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On Brannan Street... Colorful t-shirts deck out this Gap building on Brannan (between Second and Third Streets), brightening up an otherwise dreary block.
misc Gap Returns to Squareness, Restores Original Logo Well that didn't take long. After last week's Internet backlash, San Francisco's favorite khaki maker* has reverted back to their classic logo. Gap president Marka Hansen apparently changed her mind about how "contemporary
SF News What Has Gap Fallen In To? by Andrew Dalton Local mega-brand Gap ditched their iconic logo, known for sufficiently capturing the brand's tasteful and unpretentious character, in favor of a slick new helvetica-laced number this week. Which brings them
SF News Gap CEO Takes Slight Pay Cut, Receives Huge Compensation Even though the clothing giant improved sales in 2009, Gap CEO Glenn Murphy, 48, has taken a pay cut. Murphy, according to an AP report, "received compensation valued at $5 million, down 7
SF News Scene from Today's Don Fisher Memorial Service "Festive atmosphere so far, but I suspect emotions are coming.," reports the photog whpo shot the image from today's Don Fischer memorial. Gap founder Don Fisher, if you recall, died in September. He
SF News Gap Founder Don Fisher Dies After a long battle with cancer, Gap founder and third-generation San Franciscan Don Fisher died on Sunday. He was 81. Co-founding the wildly successful clothing retailer in 1969 with his wife, Doris --
SF News Fisher Pulls Museum Out of the Presidio by Chris Jones Ah, what a shame. Don Fisher, founder of Geranimals for adults clothing chain, The Gap, has decided to take his fancy looking modern art collection and go home. Readers may
SF News Revised Plans for the Presidio Released, Chron Sits on CAMP Plans While feather were ruffled at last year's Gap/Don Fisher/Presidio Museum/no bowling alley plan meeting thingy, this year things were a bit calmer. According to SFCItizen, the new plans for the
SF News Don Fisher's Ego to kill Presidio Bowl Everyone knows about local billionaire Don Fisher's plan to rule the world by putting a museum for his personal art collection in the Presidio. What we (and, probably you) didn't know is that
SF News Photo du Jour 170 Things got a wee bit heated at last night's Presidio Trust Public Board of Directors Meeting. The hot topic about was that art museum thingy we most likely never plan on visiting, but
misc Money Can't Buy You Love, But It'll Buy a Museum Although the Presidio Trust and park officials support the plan, the Presidio Historical Association is opposing the plan. Problems include traffic problems for the Presidio/Cow Hollow and not preserving the "feel" of
SF News Old Navy Sued Over Pine Tree-Shaped Air Freshener Shirt Design The maker of those little tree-shaped air fresheners you find dangling from rear view mirrors have sued Gap Inc. over Old Navy's use of the iconic image in a t-shirt, emblazoned with the
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour 12 Granted, Gap, Inc. will one day tenderize, marinated, season, sear, let rest, carve, and then eat your first born -- that is, if they are in fact as diabolical as we're led to
