SF News Retail Survey Says: Castro Getting Less Gay, But Remains Very Gay For the past year, a consulting firm has been working on a retail strategy for the Castro and Upper Market, helping to solve the question of why certain retail vacancies in the neighborhood
SF News 160-Year-Old SF Jeweler Shreve & Co. Getting Pushed Out Of Union Square Building That Bears Its Name The latest victim of rising rents and opportunistic landlords is a heritage retailer of the Union Square area, Shreve & Co., a Bay Area jewelry business that dates back to the Gold Rush
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Duboce Triangle Coffeeshop Shutters This Weekend Jumpin Java (139 Noe Street), one of the favorite cafe work spots of the Duboce Triangle neighborhood, known for its lax policy about letting you sit all day and its plentiful power outlets
SF News 45-Year-Old Downtown Toy Store Jeffrey's To Close In April, Still Might Relocate A beloved, iconic downtown toy shop one of the last independently owned toy stores in the city is being forced to close next month after a steep rent hike. Used as an inspiration
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Fizzary On Haight Is Closed With Brewing To Commence On Mission Looks like you'll have to head to the Mission location of The Fizzary for your microbrew chai cola or whatever as the soda store's offshoot on Haight Street is closed for a concept
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Mary's And SoulCycle Are Both Coming To The Castro Clearing the final major hurdle of the Planning Commission, both the proposed Hamburger Mary's in the former Patio Cafe space (531 Castro) and a proposed location of popular spin class church (or whatever)
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Santa The Hutt Quits Boozing This season Betabrand, famed and defamed for their creation of the Suitsy (a onesie suit) has reprised their holiday horror photo scene starring Santa the Hutt. Passersby at the Valencia Street store are
SF News Are People Finally Sick Of Black Friday Insanity? Despite much crowing by retail watchers about how well the retail sector is expected to do this holiday season, Black Friday weekend proved to be a major disappointment, with overall spending down significantly
SF News Warby Parker Store Arrives In Hayes Valley Next Week It may surprise you to learn that San Francisco doesn't have a dedicated Warby Parker eyeglass retail store. Or didn't, until now: Next Tuesday, one is opening at 357 Hayes Street. "Surrounded by
SF News At Last, Market Street Place Breaks Ground The long-delayed, $150 million, 250,000-square-foot urban mall now known as Market Street Place is slowly rising from an empty hole in the ground. Mid-Market revivalists are rejoicing as, today, developer, Cypress Equities
SF News Hipster Girl Clocked In Mom-Rage Incident In Nordstrom Rack Parking Lot In Colma After trying to tell a mother in the checkout line at Nordstrom Rack in Colma to quiet her screaming child, a young woman ended up getting punched in the face by the mother
SF News Chain Retail Rules For S.F. To Get More Strict A proposal before the Board of Supervisors, spearheaded by Eric Mar, could further complicate things for chain retailers seeking space in San Francisco. The new guidelines, which go to a vote next week,
Arts & Entertainment 10 Best Places To Buy A Suit In San Francisco This may be San Francisco, where everyone's been eagerly awaiting the day sweatpants became fashionable (and they did), and where the tech industry's traditional uniform has always been jeans and a t-shirt, but
SF News Where To Try Out Apple Pay, Assuming That Store Location Has Read The Memo Today's rollout day for Apple Pay, the new touch-payment system that came built in on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and will also be included in the upcoming Apple Watch. And as
SF News Chiu Pushes For More Predictable Hours For Retail Workers by Eric Wuestewald Everyone who's worked part-time knows that the schedule is always a moving target. Mornings, nights, weekends it's all up in the air. Retail and fast-food workers have to embrace the
SF News Three San Francisco Retail Icons Lose Their Leases, Close Under the title "retail icons," we're including the 97-Cent Plus Store on Divisadero. Still, the pattern of small, longtime San Francisco business closing due to the City's vast economy gap continues. Hoodline brings
SF News Macy's And Bloomingdale's To Offer Same-Day Delivery In S.F. In move that helps them go head-to-head with big-shot Amazon (and, potentially, Uber) in the same-day delivery space, Macy's and Bloomingdale's have just announced partnerships with Palo Alto-based Deliv. The startup delivery service
Arts & Entertainment New Teeny Tiny Target Store To Open In The Financial District It appears that Financial District workers will soon have a new place to pick up stuff like eco-friendly cleaners, lip balm, and that pasta with the bunny on the box, as Target announced
SF News Clothes Contact To Remain Open Through Year's End Phew, right? For anyone who was panicking that Clothes Contact, the $10-a-pound vintage store that's been the go-to for bargain hunters for two decades, was going to be closing imminently, you can breathe
SF News Photo: People Waiting In Line To Buy Stuff Oh really? You're no better. You know, many of you have willingly—and, far worse, pridefully—waited in long lines for a bowl of Sriracha ramen, a scoop of artisan ice cream, or
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Classic Stores In S.F. If you've been following the news lately, San Francisco is a city that doesn't care much for chain stores. We prefer local. And although the recent economic boom has pushed out many stores
SF News Valencia Merchants, Others, Honestly Surprised Jack Spade Is Not Afraid Of Them The move by Liz Claiborne-owned mini-chain Jack Spade to open on 16th Street has become, for many, a galvanizing symbol of the latest phase in the Mission's gentrification and potential loss of character.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eureka!, A New Coffee Shop, Adds To Castro Coffee Blitz There's not one, not two, but three new coffee concerns descending on the Castro in the coming months, and today's news about Eureka! (451 Castro Street) is the latest. It's going to serve
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sometimes You Need A Little Finesse, The Store; Sometimes You Need A Lot Thomas Keller, he of French Laundry fame, has opened his very first retail property, christening it Finesse, The Store. The name brings to mind two important things: 1) comma audacity and 2) this.
SF News George Zimmer, the Face of Men's Wearhouse, Gets Canned George Zimmer, whose gravelly, deliberate delivery of the line, "You're gonna like the way you look. I guarantee it," has made him boringly famous, is being ousted as Executive Chairman of the Houston-
