A new grocery store opened Thursday at the border of San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf and North Beach neighborhoods, giving thousands of residents a long-awaited option after the site sat vacant for three years.
Grocery Outlet took over the former Safeway location on Bay Street, which closed in 2023 after the company said the store didn’t meet financial expectations. The closure left roughly 20,000 people living within a half-mile of the site with one less full-service grocery store.
Shepherd Sanders, a resident who spoke with CBS News Bay Area back in 2023 when the Safeway closed, said at the time the loss would mean extra trips across the city just to buy groceries…