SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OG Whole Foods Location In Mill Valley Announces Permanent Closure, Prompting Outcry, Petition One of the first Whole Foods locations in the country, the one that debuted in a Quonset hut structure on Miller Avenue in Mill Valley over 30 years ago, has been closed since July for "repairs," and now may be closed for good.
SF News Saturday Links: Extended 101 Carpool Hours Blamed for North Bay Traffic ‘Carmageddon’ The Cupertino Whole Foods that had multiple pest infestations is set to reopen soon; new research from Stanford found that wildfire smoke is the most dangerous aspect of climate change in the US; and North Bay commuters are experiencing average speeds of 15 miles an hour along Highway 101.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Australian Bank Fires, Rehires Staff After Chatbot Fails Spectacularly The Pickett Fire in Napa County was at 7% containment on Friday afternoon; the vermin-infested Cupertino Whole Foods that shut down in April is still closed; and an Australian bank had to hire back the employees it fired when its new chatbot bombed.
SF News Fancy Cupertino Whole Foods Shut Down, Called a ‘Threat to Health and Safety’ Amidst Vermin Infestation The Cupertino Whole Foods just three miles from Apple’s headquarters apparently has a vermin problem, and has been ordered closed by Santa Clara County health officials until they can get it cleaned up.
SF News That Whole Foods Planned for the Geary and Masonic Best Buy Space Is Now in Limbo, Might Not Be Happening The nearly seven-year saga of a Whole Foods trying to move into the long-vacant Best Buy at Anza Vista’s City Center plaza could be ending with a fizzle, as the Amazon-owned grocery chain themselves appears to be pulling the plug on the project.
SF News Man Stabbed Near Whole Foods in SF's Balboa Park Neighborhood SFPD arrested a suspect accused of stabbing a man near a San Francisco Whole Foods Sunday morning.
SF News SF City Hall OKs Whole Foods Moving Into the Long-Empty Former Best Buy at Geary and Masonic Nearly six-and-a-half years since Whole Foods called dibs on the vacated Best Buy space in City Center plaza at Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue, the SF Planning Commission finally authorized the Amazon-owned grocery chain to move into the space Thursday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Civic Center Whole Foods Employees Say Store Didn't Close Just Because of Crime Much like Walgreens before them, Amazon-owned Whole Foods may be scapegoating San Francisco's petty crime problem and feeding into a narrative in order to avoid talking about the economics of the store they just shut down.
SF News Someone Died From an Overdose Inside the Mid-Market Whole Foods That Just Closed We’re learning there had been a fatal overdose in September at the Whole Foods at Eighth and Market Street that was closed down early this week, with someone who had OD’ed on fentanyl and methamphetamine while in the grocery store’s restroom.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market Whole Foods Closing Due to Terrible Street Conditions Outside The Whole Foods at Trinity Place, at Eighth and Market in San Francisco, is closing its doors one year after opening there, with the company citing the horrible street conditions outside as the reason.
SF News Whole Foods Moves In Again On Long-Vacant Former Best Buy Location at Geary and Masonic Whole Foods has submitted new plans to occupy the space that Best Buy vacated way back in 2017, as the grocer continues its now nearly-six-year quest to be the new anchor tenant at City Center plaza at Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue.
Business & Tech Amazon to Bring Eerie-Sounding ‘Palm Scanner Payment Technology’ to SF Whole Foods Stores A bizarre biometric form of payment is coming to several Bay Area Whole Foods locations, allowing you to pay just by waving your palm. But is it worth handing your biological data to Amazon just to avoid the extremely menial task of pulling out a credit card?
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Whole Foods Evacuated After Shooting Outside A shooting outside the Whole Foods at Lake Merritt led to the store being evacuated Monday night, SF General says 115 employees are currently off the schedule due to vaccine status, and Monday's winning $700M Powerball ticket was sold in California.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Supervisors To Vote On City's Eighth Whole Foods Rain showers will be passing through most of the day, Twitter is rolling out disappearing messages called "Fleets" today, and two local residents and a grocery workers' union are trying to block a Whole Foods from coming to Geary and Masonic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whole Foods Workers May Stage Sickout Tuesday To Demand Hazard Pay Following in the footsteps of Instacart gig-workers who are staging a virtual strike today and refusing to accept new orders, some Whole Foods workers are calling for their cohort to call in sick on Tuesday, March 31 amid a pandemic that has left them on the frontlines of essential businesses.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Safeway, Target, and Whole Foods Offering 'Senior Hours' For Older Shoppers Bay Area grocery stores and others are beginning to do their part in allowing senior citizens to shop free and clear of younger people who could be infected with the coronavirus.
SF News Target Griping Might Kill Masonic Boulevard Whole Foods Fears of Amazon competition might kill San Francisco's eighth Whole Foods location before it even has a chance to open its doors, as the battle between big box and online retail spills onto
SF News Hackers Steal Credit Card Info From Several Bay Area Whole Foods Stores If you used your credit card at a Whole Foods restaurant or taproom in the Bay Area recently, then you should keep an eye on your recent transactions, as a data breach may
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Pens Idealistic Note To Jeff Bezos About The Future Of Whole Foods Never one to miss an opportunity to proselytize, local-sustainable evangelist Alice Waters took to Twitter over the weekend to pen the note below, signed "with hopefulness," asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to please
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thanksgiving Prep: Grocery Stores With The Longest Lines, Ranked Most slacker San Franciscans still have Thanksgiving food shopping to do, and many of us who were time-wrecked by the short holiday week still haven’t even started the big grocery pilgrimage. With
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whole Foods To Open One Of The First Of Its Cheaper 365 Market Concepts On Polk Whole Foods is rolling out the first of its slimmed down, less expensive 365 By Whole Foods markets in 2016, beginning with one in LA's Silverlake neighborhood, and another now proposed for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food-Related Crime Wave: SF Women Injured By Whole Foods Shover, Pizza Puncher Two San Francisco women are recovering today after separate assaults at local food sales establishments left them shaken and injured. The first food-related attack went down at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday evening,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Get Free/Cheap 'National Coffee Day' Coffee Tuesday The National [Something] Day trend is a marketing-driven scourge that is typically met with eye-rolls and unkind remarks in the SFist (virtual) office. That said, cheap coffee is cheap coffee, right? So here's
SF News Oakland Whole Foods Customer Knocked Out By Guard In Bloody Confrontation [GRAPHIC] A security guard has been "permanently removed" from Whole Foods' Oakland store after a Thursday night confrontation that left a customer unconscious and lying in a pool of blood. The incident took place
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crab Bandits Strike Whole Foods Delivery Crab season is off to a strange start, with crustacean fever inspiring a major theft yesterday. "A mysterious marauder (marauders?) made off with five cases of crab during a routine delivery," Beth Krauss
