SF News Macy's To Shutter Its Union Square Men's Store Among the 100 Macy's stores that are set to close, as the retail giant announced today, will be the hulking, nearly windowless men's store across the street from their Union Square flagship, at
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Independent Bookstores In SF Bookstores may be becoming things of the past in many parts of the world, but San Francisco is still home to a bevy of wonderful, stalwart neighborhood bookshops that are quietly thriving and
Arts & Entertainment Beloved Mission Record Store Aquarius Records To Close And Reopen Under New Name, Management It's kinda sorta the end of the line for Aquarius Records, the independent Valencia Street shop that's been in continuous operation in various locales since at least 1970 as they say on their
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Trader Joe's Most Definitely Headed For Old Navy Basement Space At 4th And Market Though the company still hasn't publicly announced its plans, it appears Trader Joe's has its heart set on a central SF location, namely the 21,000-square-foot basement space below Old Navy which we
Arts & Entertainment Video: Inside The Levi's Vault, A Literal Jeans Archive Levi's presence in markets, not to mention on Market Street, might be so ubiquitous as to fade into the background. Not for serious denim heads, as die-hard jean enthusiasts term themselves: For them,
Arts & Entertainment Pier 29 To Become Local Maker Showcase With Possible Brewery/Craft Distillery The team behind Chelsea Market in New York a bustling food concourse and shopping mall anchored by a multi-stall artisan marketplace with clothing, accessories, and jewelry has been selected by the Port of
SF News Time to Riot: Target Is Selling A 'San Fran' T-Shirt, In San Francisco Target stores in the city of San Francisco are selling a t-shirt by a brand ironically called Local Pride that no local would be caught dead in. It says "San Fran" on it
SF News San Franpsycho Says Peace Out To Divisadero Store Later! San Franpsycho's outpost at 505 Divisadero, the first brick and mortar retail location for the 2001-founded clothing makers, is shutting its doors as of this weekend. The store opened in 2012, and
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Best Record Stores In SF & Oakland Hey guys remember Tower Records? And Discolandia? And Force of Habit? And Medium Rare Records? Yeah, me too. Music is now, on the bright side, easier to find and listen to than it
Arts & Entertainment Dog-Eared Books Announces Castro Location Coming In May Excellent news, book-readers: The Castro will not be short another bookstore come June following the upcoming closure of Books Inc. As SF Weekly reports today, the Mission's own Dog-Eared Books one of SF's
SF News IKEA Opening New Store In Deepest East Bay In 2018 In some excellent news for all those living east of the Caldecott Tunnel, the East Bay will be getting a second IKEA location, in Dublin, which may have the side effect of also
Arts & Entertainment Another SF Bookstore Bites The Dust: Books Inc. In The Castro Sad news for Castro neighborhood book lovers, and bookstore browsers: Books Inc. has just announced that their Market Street location in the heart of the 'hood will be closing at the end of
SF News Walmart Abruptly Shutters Oakland Store, Likely Over Minimum Wage The by-all-accounts busy Walmart location on Edgewater Drive in Oakland, near the Oakland Airport, will shut its doors Sunday evening along with a location in San Jose, and Oakland officials are sounding the
Arts & Entertainment Rasputin Music Closes Powell Street Store Sad but fairly unsurprising news today: One of the city's last big holdouts, record-store wise, has given up the ghost, and that is Rasputin's Union Square store. The deceptively large, five-story location at
SF News Safeway Ordered To Pay $42 Million After Overcharging Online Customers For Years Safeway was hit with a huge fine today, as a federal judge ordered the company to pay customers $42 million after overcharging them for years. From 2006 to 2011 the Pleasanton-based company misled
SF News Is Alamo Drafthouse About To Buy Le Video's Collection? The Inner Sunset video store Le Video is not long for this world, but the question of what happens to the store's huge inventory of films remains to be decided. The store, with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Once Upon A Time, The Nopa Space Almost Became A Blockbuster Video It's kind of amazing the way neighborhoods morph and change over time, some for better and some for worse, sometimes incrementally and sometimes pretty quickly. The last five years, for instance, has seen
SF News 'Curated' Retail Booths Arriving At BART Stations This Week BART trains are, occasionally, delayed and/or too crowded for you to fit on. But for Blinq, a newly founded Bay Area company that's negotiated an exclusive retail deal with the regional transit
Arts & Entertainment SF's 13 Best Local Fashion Labels While San Francisco is still a far cry from being a fashion capital, we are hardly without fashion sense (ahem, New York Magazine and your superiority of 2014). And in our booming economy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Wine Stores In San Francisco A good wine store requires several things: broad selection, outside-the-box options, value, convenience, and knowledgable, unpretentious staff. When it comes to wine, the quality and broadness of the selection might be subjective, but
Arts & Entertainment Despite All Efforts To Save It, Le Video Once Again About To Close Last weekend the Chronicle told the encouraging tale of tiny, 32-year-old Video Wave, which was saved by loyal Noe Valley neighbors by sharing space with a candy store. But a move last year
SF News FLAX Moving to Fort Mason, Negotiating Two Additional Locations in Bay Area FLAX art & design, the beloved, family-owned business whose expansive 23,000-square-foot Upper Market store is being forced to vacate its lot beneath surrounding, sky-reaching developments, has found a new home. Or three.
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Niche Stores In San Francisco Sometimes you just need a part for your electric train set, or a skein of a specific brand of alpaca yarn, and you don't want to wait three days for Amazon. In this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Sketchiest Safeways, Ranked A couple years back SFist did you the solid of listing the city's five worst Walgreens. Now, as a new report arrives via Hoodline about one downtown Safeway in particular (145 Jackson Street)
