Alphabet stock surged due to an impending overhaul of Google's search engine, driven by AI advancements. The change could either benefit or injure an already at-risk industry in online publishing. Some fear reduced viewer traffic and financial implications, while others embrace opportunities ahead.

In one of the most surprising developments in San Francisco’s post-pandemic retail apocalypse, Nordstrom now says it will close its giant, 312,000-square-foot department store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre, open since 1988.

The Trader Joe’s store on College Avenue in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland has become the grocery store chain’s first California store to unionize.

Taraval Street’s Gold Mirror restaurant will be getting an upstairs cannabis dispensary called Green Mirror, over the objections of many neighbors, but it was not granted the “edibles consumption lounge” the dispensary had wanted.

Wow, that was fast. The “flagship” mid-Market Whole Foods that opened at Eighth and Market Streets in March 2022 only lasted until April 2023, and as of Tuesday, the store is no longer operating.

The biggest grocery store in the Fisherman’s Wharf-North Beach area is set to close, as Safeway confirms they’re shuttering the Northpoint Centre Safeway on May 27.

Following a successful pop-up near Union Square, the popular candy megastore It'Sugar (pronounced It's Sugar, FYI) is opening a big new location next to Fisherman's Wharf on Friday.

Castro residents and visitors will soon be able to stop in to the visitor center and gift shop called Welcome Castro, opening at 525 Castro Street, which was formerly the Levi's Store.

Last weekend, specialty grocery store Luke’s Local celebrated the opening of its newest market in North Beach. Situated in a building on the corner of Green and Stockton that formerly housed a bank, it joins two other locations in Cole Valley and Cow Hollow.

Despite a packed-house crowd of opponents waving “No Marijuana” signs, the SF Planning Commission approved a new Telegraph Hill dispensary with a smoking lounge, now coming to Broadway and Front Street.

The 16th largest bank in the U.S. and one of the key lending partners to countless Bay Area tech startups has failed. Silicon Valley Bank, which is responsible for $210 billion in assets, collapsed on Friday, sending shockwaves across the U.S. economy. It is being reported as the biggest banking collapse since the fall of Washington Mutual in 2008.

After outgrowing its current storefront, Castro dog wash and groomer MudPuppy's Tub & Scrub (536 Castro St.) has expanded into a long-vacant storefront next door.

Amazon thought it was disrupting the retail industry with its no-cashier Amazon Go stores, but five years into the concept, they’re closing a bunch of them, including all four SF stores.