SF News Mission Merchants Continue Campaign Against Jack Spade As we learned back in March, Jack Spade has signed a lease for the former Adobe Bookstore space on 16th Street. Since early May, neighborhood merchants have been battling to keep the chain
SF News Stockton Street Apple Store Moving To Levi's Space Perhaps wisely, given the multi-year clusterfuck of the Central Subway construction on their doorstep, the Apple Store at 1 Stockton Street is relocating next year to the big space currently occupied by Levi's
SF News New CVS-Anchored Market-Noe Center Revealed Everyone wanted a Trader Joe's, but the Castro is instead getting a CVS in the long vacant Market-Noe Center (formerly home to Tower Records). This week, via the Planning Commission and Castro Biscuit,
SF News City Target Softly Opens at the Metreon It's here. The new Target store at Mission and 4th debuted yesterday, following Mayor Lee's ribbon cutting on Tuesday night (in the midst of the Mirkarimi proceedings). It's softly open now, with the
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Inside Uniqlo's First West Coast Store in San Francisco On Friday October 5th, Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo will open its wildly anticipated West Coast flagship store near Union Square in San Francisco. This morning, the discount retailer treated members of the local
SF News CityPlace To Move Forward Again On Market Street With JCPenney As Anchor Thank the lord: That depressing, long-vacant block of Market Street between Fifth and Sixth is finally seeing some action again. The approved CityPlace development billed as a discount-anchored mall with 260,000 square
SF News Wal-Mart Plague To Spread Throughout Bay Area Chilling bog-box retailer Wal-Mart plans on opening four Neighborhood Market grocery stores in the Bay Area at sites in the South Bay and East Bay. The morally-questionable company will unleash stores in San
Arts & Entertainment The Mission's Force Of Habit Record Shop Closed, Getting Replaced By Restaurant [Updated] Another small, independent record shop bites the dust. Force of Habit, the little punk shop at 3565 20th Street (at Lexington) appears to be on its way to closing as SFist finds that
SF News XXI Forever, The Cougar Forever 21, Opens Near Union Square In big retail news for the well-over-21 set, XXI Forever, the spinoff of Forever 21 geared toward slightly older gals, had its grand opening Saturday at Market and Stockton in the former Virgin
SF News Oakland Sears Store Safe From Closure For Now Last week brought the big news that Sears Holdings would be closing 100 to 120 Sears and Kmart stores around the country following a dismal year of stagnant or declining sales. But as
SF News Sears And Kmart Closing 100+ Stores; Oakland's Likely To Go The big retail news today came from Sears Holdings, the company that since 2005 has owned both Sears and Kmart, which announced that it would be closing "at least" 100 under-performing stores nationwide
Arts & Entertainment XXI Forever, The Forever 21 Spinoff For Older Gals, Coming To Former Virgin Megastore Space Forever 21, which last year signed a lease for the enormous former Virgin Megastore space at Stockton and Market, is about to get its second Union Square-adjacent store. The chain's spinoff brand, XXI
SF News Vacant Storefronts Become 'Popuphood' In Old Oakland Today Oakland hasn't exactly been a hotbed of retail activity in recent decades, and efforts to bring more retail downtown, and to revive the foundering Jack London Square have been mostly stalled (though Coi/
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro Wants Another Starbucks for Some Reason Employing "reclaimed" gobbledygook as a selling point, Starbucks wants to put another damn spore in the Castro, a few blocks away from the bear-frequented Starbucks at 18th and Castro. With takeover plans zeroed
SF News Fearful Apple Trains All New Retail Managers on 'Union Awareness' In an effort to quiet union tinkering by Apple store employees, something that almost happened earlier this year, all new Apple store managers must take "union awareness" classes starting today. In a company
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noted West Coast Chain Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Expands to the East Coast The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, generally known in these northern parts as the drinkable coffee joint that will do in a pinch if there is no Peet's around, is expanding eastward. As
SF News Passing the Ballot: Amazon.com Wants Californians to Vote on New Sales Tax Law A new law requiring online retailers to collect California sales tax from shoppers has stirred up controversy, and now Amazon.com Inc. is saying they are looking for voters to take the matter
SF News A Different Light, Modern Times Books Closing Sad news for book lovers in San Francisco. According to reports, independently-owned A Different Light (489 Castro) in the Castro and Modern Times (888 Valencia) in the Mission will close their doors this
SF News Oakland/Emeryville Target Now Open for Business Oaklanders have a new place to shop for discount housewares and Justin Timberlake fashions as Target opens a new store on the Oakland/Emeryville border, at 1555 40th Street. The big ribbon cutting
Arts & Entertainment Little Otsu Says Good-bye Oh drats, this is too bad. Little Otsu, that charming store on Valencia Street that sells equally charming stuff (comics, wallets, DIY stuff, vegetable-based ink publishing), is closing its doors. "Eight years seems
SF News Target Community Meeting Held "If they don't approve the Target, my wife might go on a killing spree," jokes @laughinghyena13. "Watch out SF!" This is the whimsical sentiment of many San Franciscans who, bombarded with tasty-yet-pricey artisan
misc 7 Reasons to Visit the Metreon Ah, what could have been but never was. That, in a steel-and-glass nutshell, is the Metreon, the monstrous beast at Fourth and Mission streets. Awkwardly shaped, dark interiors, stupefying walkways, confounding escalators --
SF News Castro Trader Joe's Threatened by Radio Shack Ye olde Radio Shack in the Castro is making things difficult for the glory that is Trader Joe's. See, the phenomenal supermarket is now having trouble moving into the Market and Noe Center.
