#san-francisco-retail

#san-francisco-retail

The Grocery Outlet at NorthPoint Centre is set to open in late summer of this year, a Grocery Outlet representative confirmed to SFGATE. Earlier this week, an eagle-eyed Redditor posted a photo of a new Grocery Outlet sign at the location. In late March, Hoodline spotted construction barriers, plywood walls and banners reading “Future home of Grocery Outlet” at the site, indicating the store is under construction.

Closing a store is not a decision we take lightly, but this store has had performance issues for an extended period of time. We have worked to enhance and remodel the location, but it has not shown the sales and profit needed to continue operations. In fact, despite the best efforts of a great team, we have lost money year over year at this location.

San Francisco still has challenges. We know that economic uncertainty, downtown recovery, workforce transitions and the broader question of what our city will become next,

San Francisco's pandemic retail apocalypse was already well underway when the three-story Union Square Uniqlo store closed in 2021, with that shopping district's H&M and The Gap having already fallen on their swords. (This was when we were still social distancing, and almost no one was eligible to get the COVID vaccine yet.) And things in Union Square would only get much worse from there.