Business & Tech Walgreens Closing 1,200 More Stores Nationwide, So This Is Not Just a San Francisco Thing After years of finger-pointing at San Francisco over a small handful of local Walgreens closures, the company now admits it just has way too many stores, and will be closing 1,200 more of them across the US.
SF News Macy's to Close Its San Francisco Union Square Flagship, In Huge Blow to City Retail Macy's announced plans today to close 150 of its "underproductive" stores nationwide, with 50 of them to close this year. And now we have confirmation that San Francisco's enormous — and often empty — store is among them.
Arts & Entertainment Gap Inc. Hires Star Designer Zac Posen to Chief Creative Role to Revamp Old Navy, Other Brands High-profile fashion designer Zac Posen, known for designing red carpet looks and showing at New York Fashion Week, is taking on a new corporate role as executive vice president and creative director at Gap Inc., and CCO (Chief Creative Officer) of Old Navy.
SF News Macy’s Will Close Its San Leandro Store at Bayfair Mall as It Lays Off 2,350 Employees Nationwide A big bloodletting is coming to the franchise department store Macy’s, with a reported 2,350 employees being laid off nationwide, and the San Leandro’s Macy’s at the Bayfair Center will be one of five store casualties.
Business & Tech FiDi 24-Hour Fitness and McDonald’s Both Announce Closures Amidst Record Office Vacancy Two Financial District chain retail businesses less than 500 feet from one another — both of which opened in 1994 — have announced their closures: a McDonald's and a 24-Hour Fitness, both shutting down due to the district’s offices being emptied out.
SF News Nordstrom to Shutter Downtown SF Department Store, and Nordstrom Rack, This Summer Cue more talk of "doom loops" and retail apocalypses. Nordstrom just revealed plans to close its 312,000-square-foot department store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre in August.
SF News Ross Dress For Less Wants to Take Over the Saks Off Fifth Location at Fifth and Market Street There’s already a Ross Dress for Less at Fourth and Market Streets, and now there may be another just one block away at Fifth and Market Streets, though it’s unclear if Ross is adding a new store or just moving.
SF News Anthropologie on Market Street Set to Close In May; Also, Downtown Office Depot Two more major retail closures are hitting downtown, one of them sort of predictable and the other not.
SF News Bed Bath & Beyond Is Closing Its SoMa Store You knew it was coming, with all the bankruptcy rumblings in the news, but yes, Bed Bath and What's More is closing its only San Francisco store.
SF News Hayes Valley Retailer Who Closed Store In a Huff and Bemoaned a 'City of Chaos' Has Reopened Said Store It seems like only yesterday — actually three weeks ago — that the owner of trendy outerwear company Cotopaxi was proclaiming, as so many have, that San Francisco was unsalvageable and he was closing his Hayes Valley store for good due to rampant crime and "chaos."
SF News IKEA Confirmed For Mid-Market Mall Project; Breed Takes Credit For Pitching the Idea IKEA is coming to downtown to SF next fall, to the long-empty 6x6 mall on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, and the plan is for an urban version of an IKEA store that's about 20-percent of the size of their regular, sprawling suburban complexes.
SF News Black Friday: Protest Planned For San Leandro Walmart In honor of Black Friday, and the horrifically-named Gray Thursday, workers will protest at Walmart stores around the country today. Rev. Ed Middelton, a pastor at First Community Church in Dallas, Texas, who
