SF Politics Will the Pandemic Retail Apocalypse Push SF Neighborhoods to Ease Formula Retail Rules? The pandemic and recession may be reason enough to ease at least some of the restrictions that have kept chain stores of all kinds from populating empty retail spaces, now that neighborhoods like Hayes Valley are looking pretty grim.
SF News Old-School Castro Barbershop 'Male Image' Is Closing After 41 Years Male Image, the barbershop near the corner of Market and Sanchez in the Castro, is not going to reopen whenever barbershops are allowed to in SF. Longtime owner Gary Mootz reportedly plans to retire.
Arts & Entertainment Beloved San Mateo Toy Store, Talbot's Toyland, Is Closing After 66 Years Kids who grew up in the Bay Area are lamenting the loss of a seven-decade-old toy retailer in San Mateo that was a mecca in a legion of local childhoods. Citing the "retail apocalypse," the iconic Talbot's Toyland with its huge T-Rex in the entry is calling it quits.
Arts & Entertainment Thrift Town Owners Blame Lagging Sales For Closure Days earlier than expected, Mission favorite Thrift Town has closed: https://t.co/iGMmedYNlT pic.twitter.com/sXJfc2k0wg— Capp Street Crap (@cappstreetcrap) March 30, 2017 Many on Wednesday were mourning the sudden loss
