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.

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.

On Thursday, the San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously approved a conditional use permit for cannabis retailer Positive Green at 268 Church Street, formerly Underglass Custom Framing.

A new private event space has opened at 2331 Market St., formerly the home of floral shop Ixia, filling another one of the vacancies in this building.

Thanks to neighborhood association North Beach Neighbors, 26 lucky small business owners recently benefited from free marketing support in the form of professional videos, photos, copywriting or guidance on using social media platforms like TikTok.

The future of Castro video bar Badlands appears to be in limbo after controversial landlord Les Natali was forced to surrender the bar's liquor license.