SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's How to Find Black-Owned Businesses to Support in the Bay Area, Including Restaurants The Chronicle’s exhaustive list of black-owned Bay Area restaurants is just one of many resources available to support African-American-owned shops, eateries, and service providers.
SF News Amazon Brick-And-Mortar Book Store Coming To Walnut Creek In August One of the more curious aspects to Amazon’s wholesale slaughter of the brick-and-mortar retail book industry is Amazon’s apparent desire to revive the brick-and-mortar retail book industry. To that end, the
SF News National Department Store Bloodbath Leads To Closure Of Another San Francisco Macy's After a holiday season that left major retail chains reeling with disappointment, department store giants Macy's, Sears, and Kmart have announced a massive wave of real estate sales, closures and shutdowns, including one
SF News Lego Fans Rejoice As New SF Lego Store Debuts At Westfield Mall "We've been planning a LONG time for this," exclaimed Erez Morag. The 31-year old San Franciscan was one of the first in line to check out the new Lego Store at the Westfield
Arts & Entertainment Farewell, Powell And Market Forever 21 Union Square shoppers will soon have to walk a few steps further to partake in that special kind of fast fashion you can only get at Forever 21, as the company's massive Powell
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 Stockton Street Becomes Pedestrian Holiday Plaza Lots of holiday cheer and zero cars or cranes will occupy two blocks of Stockton Street in the Union Square shopping district this season. Construction for the new Central Subway project (coming soon
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
Arts & Entertainment Goodwill Blowout: All Clothing $2 At Local Stores, 50% Off At Boutiques It seems like everyone in SF has an opinion on thrift store shopping, from "that's how I spend my weekends," to "there's no good thrift store shopping in San Francisco, you need to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Grand Emporiums Of Old San Francisco Remember the good old shopping days of SF? No, we're not talking about when Valencia wasn't home to multiple places selling $300+ shoes, we're talking about the golden era of San Francisco department
SF News If You Shopped at Target Since Thanksgiving, Your Credit Card Was Probably Stolen The data from some 40 million transactions at Target stores nationwide was stolen by cybercriminals in the last couple of weeks. As this security blogger first reported, the investigation is underway but it
SF News Panic: Chain Stores Threaten Valencia Street's Preciousness Yet Again Over in the city's elite Mission District, rue de la Valencia might play host to a couple of chain stores. (Heh.) According to Mission Local, two retailers hawking widely-available goods might worm their
SF News Mysterious Google Barge Is Officially A Floating Retail Store About a month after news broke that Google's mystery barge in the San Francisco Bay was more like a fancy Google sailboat, a few more details have emerged about the floating heap loaded
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 Shoppers, Don't Panic Yet: SF Holiday Bazaar Is Coming Do you procrastinate until the end of December, hoping against hope that a natural disaster will save you from holiday gift-giving duties? Conquer your crippling shopping phobia with the San Francisco Bazaar, an
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
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 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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Etiquette Week: How To Conduct Yourself At The Grocery Store Etiquette Week 2013 continues to teach you how to be a better person today with tips and tricks on navigating your local grocery store. From swiping samples to queuing up properly to the
SF News Photos: Take A Look Around MUJI's First West Coast Store, Open Today In SoMa MUJI SOMA, the Japanese purveyor of "brand-free" clothing, furniture and home goods opens today at Ninth and Bryant Streets. This morning, the store opened their doors to members of the press for a
SF News Meanwhile, At City Target On Black Friday... We took a break from digesting to report on the presumed bloodbath happening at City Target at the Metreon, where we expected to brave hordes looking for Black Friday bargains. Alas, no such
Arts & Entertainment MUJI's First West Coast Store To Open November 30th MUJI, the (other) highly anticipated Japanese discount retailer coming to San Francisco this Fall has announced that their first West Coast outpost will open in SoMa on November 30th — just in time for
Arts & Entertainment Uniqlo Previews First West Coast Store With Union Square Pop-Up Uniqlo, the beloved Japanese clothing chain that will be making its widely anticipated entry in to the West Coast market this Fall, has opened a temporary home just a few blocks away to
Arts & Entertainment MUJI To Bring Minimalist Japanese Design To SoMa MUJI, the popular Japanese retail company that has applied their minimalist design and zen-like, brand-free packaging to everything from skincare to furniture will open their first West Coast location in San Francisco this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/6: Kelley Stoltz/Shana Falana MUSIC: It's a stellar night of indie rock, featuring headliners Kelley Stoltz, who's been dubbed "a veritable godfather to the burgeoning San Francisco under/over-ground," and Shana Falana, a former S.F. indie
