T&T Supermarket opened its first San Francisco store on Nov. 5 at City Center, 2675 Geary Blvd., filling a former Best Buy space that had been vacant since 2017, according to SFist. The roughly 50,000-square-foot store at Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue is the Canadian chain’s second California location and fourth in the United States.
The opening comes as San Francisco has been losing full-service grocers rather than gaining them — especially in the neighborhoods east of the store. T&T CEO Tina Lee framed the opening in those terms. “There have been more stores that have closed in the last five years than stores that have opened,” Lee told ABC7 San Francisco, adding that the company was glad to fill a void for fresh produce.
For households in the Richmond District, Anza Vista and the Western Addition, the practical change is another large store with a deep produce department, a hot food bar and pantry staples within reach of the 38 Geary corridor. It does not replace a neighborhood supermarket that closed, and some shoppers who relied on those stores may still face a longer trip.
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The Western Addition has absorbed two major grocery losses in less than two years. The Safeway at 1335 Webster St. in the Fillmore closed in 2025, eliminating the neighborhood’s primary full-service grocery store, according to a San Francisco Board of Supervisors resolution. The same resolution noted that Lucky’s store at 1750 Fulton St. was scheduled to close permanently on or around Sept. 11, 2026…