SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Best Buy at Geary and Masonic to Become Asian Market T&T, After Whole Foods Plan Falls Through An Asian supermarket chain out of Canada will be taking over the long vacant former Best Buy space in San Francisco's City Center complex, years after Whole Foods was supposed to be moving in.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Set to End the Useless ‘Sell By’ Date on Grocery Labels, Will Switch to Standardized ‘Use By’ Dates The “Sell by” date on your perishable groceries is meaningless to you, the consumer. But starting next year, California will see a more useful label that says “Use by,” or in some cases, “Best if used (or frozen) by.”
SF News Fillmore Safeway to Close In Eight Weeks, Cites Shoplifting as Issue The beleaguered Safeway in the Fillmore, the planned closure of which was announced almost a year ago, now has a final closing date, and the company won't be negotiating this time.
SF News Bi-Rite Officially Found to Be SF's Most Expensive Grocery Store; Grocery Outlet the Cheapest The Chronicle did some real service journalism for you this week, surveying the city's grocery scene in these inflationary times, and telling you just where you can find the cheapest avocados, bread, and milk.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Andronico's Market Coming To a Long-Ago Safeway Next To Seacliff A grocery store property in the Outer Richmond that tried to go down-market as a Fresh & Easy location a few years ago is going to pivot to an upscale clientele as Safeway plans to put an Andronico's there.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supervisor Fewer Calls For Off-Duty Cops To Guard Safeways Following Attack On Employee Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer was calling Wednesday for Safeway corporate to step up and do something more "proactive" about security at their San Francisco stores, following two violent incidents involving shoplifters attacking store
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Event Designer Stanlee Gatti's Ultra Fancy Meraki Market Opens In The Tenderloin Thursday A high-end gourmet market conceived by local event impresario Stanlee Gatti will make its debut on October 19, and from the sound of it, it will be like nothing the Tenderloin has known,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Safeway Manager Does Reddit AMA, Explains Why Self-Checkout System Is So Bad And Lines Are Always Long An anonymous "mid-level manager" at a Bay Area Safeway store did a Reddit Ask Me Anything this week, and in it he admits that he's baffled at the choices Safeway corporate makes when
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Safeway, Five Others, Back To Being Open 24 Hours After an apparent outcry from customers in the neighborhood and perhaps continuing their quest to compete with the newer Whole Foods across the street the Church and Market Safeway has returned to being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Pens Idealistic Note To Jeff Bezos About The Future Of Whole Foods Never one to miss an opportunity to proselytize, local-sustainable evangelist Alice Waters took to Twitter over the weekend to pen the note below, signed "with hopefulness," asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to please
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Unassuming Divisadero Corner Store Has Crazy Bourbon Selection Those in the Western Addition/Nopa/Divisadero 'hood may already be familiar with the surprisingly nice booze selection and deep bourbon catalogue at Save-More Market, a few steps up from Little Star Pizza
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grocery Outlet Arrives In The Mission, At Long Last, Next Week After sitting empty for six years, the former DeLano's Market space on South Van Ness near 24th Street if finally coming alive again as a Grocery Outlet, starting next week. Mission Local brings
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bristol Farms Calls It Quits After 10 Years At Westfield Mall High-end, SoCal-based grocer Bristol Farms, which was around for the opening of the Westfield Centre back in 2006 and has served downtown lunchers and casual dry-goods shoppers leaving Bloomingdales ever since, is closing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Andronico's Markets Bought Up By Safeway, Will Take On New Name 87-year-old Bay Area grocery chain Andronico's announced today that they're being acquired by Safeway in a deal that will, at least, preserve the company's remaining store employees' jobs and some of the stores'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whole Foods To Open One Of The First Of Its Cheaper 365 Market Concepts On Polk Whole Foods is rolling out the first of its slimmed down, less expensive 365 By Whole Foods markets in 2016, beginning with one in LA's Silverlake neighborhood, and another now proposed for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amazon To Launch First Drive-Thru Grocery Pick-Up Concept In Sunnyvale It looks as though Amazon is going to be experimenting with a new drive-up grocery concept tied to their online grocery ordering system, Amazon Fresh. So, rather than relying on a fleet of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thanksgiving Prep: Which Safeways Have The Longest Lines? Despite your professed love for artisanal and local everything, most of you San Franciscans will set foot in a Safeway sometime this Thanksgiving week. But not all Safeways are created equal, and it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Instacart Now Delivering Same-Day Rainbow Grocery Starting today, Instacart will deliver for Rainbow Grocery. The delivery service sealed the deal with the popular and conscientious co-op, meaning that you'll be able to get to city's most respected grocer's items
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Grocery Store May Get Formula-Retail Exception A planned, large-scale grocery store at 555 Fulton Street (between Laguna and Octavia) is going before the Board of Supervisors tonight to possibly receive an exception to the neighborhood's ban on formula retail.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Mission Market Debuts Today At Harrison And 23rd Bursting onto the scene after a few delays today is Local Mission Market, the offshoot grocery store from the team behind Local Mission Eatery and Local's Corner. That would be the team of
