North Beach is home to what may be the country’s first smartshop, a retail concept born in Europe featuring mushrooms, psychedelic plants, and the like.

Sprouts isn’t saying exactly why it has decided to close its Fremont and Mountain View stores, but their last day in business will be June 3rd.

Cheese lovers in the city will be losing a shop that was known to carry hard-to-find exotic varieties, unless there happens to be a takeover, which is a possibility.

There are now major concerns about the future of the longstanding Berkeley flea market held each weekend at the parking lot for BART’s Ashby Station.

The Silicon Valley shopping destination has now landed 100 new merchants in the wake of a $1.1 billion expansion and renovation that it had mostly completed two years ago.

After nine years at its current location on 17th Street, Castro gift shop Local Take (3979B 17th. St.) is preparing to move to a new, larger space at 18th and Castro streets.

The former Everyday Cleaners at Divisadero and Golden Gate Avenue is spinning into a new incarnation as a cannabis dispensary, after getting a City Hall permit Thursday.

A tiny bottle shop selling local craft spirits will be built into Nob Hill’s Soda Popinski’s, despite neighbor concerns about “meandering drunks making raucous noises.”

The South Bay’s biggest hotel is back open with new branding and new hope that it will trigger a post-pandemic recharge in business travel.

Sunglass Hut quietly closed its Castro store at 511 Castro Street last week after at least 15 years in that space.

A very large dispensary will bloom at Lombard and Steiner streets, though those plans were nearly choked because the Department of Building Inspection spaced out on a permit 17 years ago.

North Beach has plenty of places to get your drink on. But until recently, if you were seeking a mellower high from a cannabis dispensary, you were out of luck.

A big announcement for construction workers, home-improvement buffs, and DIYers: It appears North Oakland could be getting a new Home Depot store.