In this edition: a hot chicken and ramen restaurant changes concepts to a sushi restaurant and a custom sofa store and medical spa open in the Castro.

Bouncing back from bankruptcy, the once-ubiquitous toy retailer Toys R Us will rear its giraffe head again in San Francisco, inside the Union Square Macy’s store, as early as October 15.

Plants by Rare Device (505 Divisadero), the plant store that opened in November 2021 as Plant House by Rare Device, is closing on Monday, July 18, after just eight months in business.

North Beach may soon be San Francisco’s go-to destination for fans of retro fashions.

Castro residents now have a new source for hanging plants, house plants, and moss baskets.

The longtime owner of the plant shop and nursery, David Gray, says the shop hasn't been profitable for a while. "I'm gonna have to find a job," he says.

After 13 years in the Castro, Trudy's Tattoo Parlor (2275 Market St.) quietly shuttered this month due to pandemic-related financial stresses.

Since opening in North Beach as a pop-up store specializing in Italian language books in 2017, Libreria Pino has outgrown several different locations in the neighborhood.

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.

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.

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.