{"id":17523,"date":"2025-10-22T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17523\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:16:09","slug":"discount-grocery-store-grocery-outlet-coming-to-pacific-beach-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17523\/","title":{"rendered":"Discount grocery store Grocery Outlet coming to Pacific Beach \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Grocery Outlet supermarket is coming to Pacific Beach, according to a banner on a vacant building on Garnet Avenue. The discount grocer has roughly 20 stores in San Diego County, from San Ysidro to Fallbrook.<\/p>\n<p>This store, at Garnet Avenue and Everts Street, will open in a relatively grocery dense area of Pacific Beach, a few blocks from a Trader Joe\u2019s and Vons, and across the street from Sprouts. The closest Grocery Outlets are in Point Loma and Mira Mesa, so this location plugs a gap for San Diego\u2019s central coastal neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>The building itself once housed a Trader Joe\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Grocery Outlook buys excess products \u201cfor pennies on the dollar, passing the savings on to you.\u201d The local store owners choose what to stock, \u201cpersonalizing each store\u2019s selection to its local community,\u201d the website says.<\/p>\n<p>A few blocks east also on Garnet Avenue in Pacific Beach, Wild Fork\u00a0has plans to open a store. The building is still under scaffolding, and the coming soon sign has been in place for months. When it opens, shoppers will be able to browse and buy online, and items will be either delivered or available for in-store pickup.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Fork\u00a0sells specialty meat and seafood with one common thread: everything is \u201cblast frozen at peak freshness.\u201d Blast freezing is a way to freeze goods <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfwc-cold.com\/the-science-of-blast-freezing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">very fast, which helps boost safety and quality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe partner with the best farms and producers to carefully curate over 700 high-quality products, free from 100 unwanted ingredients,\u201d its website says.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s other San Diego County store is in Encinitas.<\/p>\n<p>Online car buyers can get same-day delivery<\/p>\n<p>Carvana shook up the auto sales industry by offering digital-only showrooms. No parking lots packed with cars and trucks gleaming in the San Diego sunshine. Its inventory was accessible in the shopper\u2019s neat, small computer or smartphone screen.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/Carvana.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carvana<\/a> is adding one more layer of convenience in San Diego: same-day delivery, pickup and drop-off. Delivery for people buying a car and pickup or drop-off for those selling.<\/p>\n<p>On its website\u2019s vehicle listings, the words \u201cGet it Today\u201d appear in bold black. Clicking leads to an option for same day delivery or next day pick-up. From there, customers can have the delivered to their house or can pick it up at one of Carvana\u2019s signature vehicle Vending Machines.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, the fastest delivery option was next-day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Carvana employees Amy O\u00d5Hara demonstrate how a purchased vehicle is lowered to the ground floor in Ontario Friday Sept. 6, 2019. The 8-story glass outlet is the companys second car vending machine in California, the other is located in Westminster. Carvana has approximately 50,000 used vehicles available online which can be shipped to any location. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin\/SCNG)\" width=\"3592\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IDB-L-CAR-FAIRPLEX-0623-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9499527\" \/>Carvana, a vehicle ecommerce merchant, uses vending machines to deliver cars to shoppers. Now it is offering same-day home and in-store delivery for San Diego shoppers. (Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin\/SCNG)<\/p>\n<p>San Diego is one of around 20 markets with this new faster service. The company can offer same-day delivery because it has the local logistics and resources, including local inspection and reconditioning centers where used cars are prepared for resale, it said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve already introduced thousands of San Diego customers to a new way to buy or sell a car, and with this launch, we\u2019re proud to make the Carvana experience even faster and more convenient,\u201d Jacqueline Hearns, Carvana\u2019s senior director of market operations and expansion, said in the news release. \u201cOur powerful e-commerce platform and deep local infrastructure let us now offer San Diego-area buyers the opportunity to go from online checkout to driveway delivery in a matter of hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Decorative toy store coming to La Jolla<\/p>\n<p>Does your child need more toys? Is collecting cute small objects a passion or a hobby? Are you or someone you love a fan of purchasing opaque boxes or bags that hold mysterious contents and opening them to find out what you have acquired?<\/p>\n<p>Ebisu, a toy store that offers precisely that experience, will open in the La Jolla Village Square mall between Trader Joe\u2019s and PetSmart.<\/p>\n<p>The store will sell \u201cblind boxes\u201d and \u201cdecorative toys,\u201d according to signs on its future front doors.<\/p>\n<p>The space has long had a gifting and home object focus. It once was a Pier 1 Imports and most recently Sea Hive La Jolla, with booths that sold \u201call things vintage, handmade, local, unique, and more.\u201d Sea Hive closed its La Jolla business in February, but still has two locations in San Diego and one in Oceanside.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone curious and with five minutes to spare, this video shows an \u201cunboxing\u201d ritual of several Ebisu products by two consumers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZU04TwDpCmQ.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youtube.com\/watch?v=ZU04TwDpCmQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Creepy teas at a distinguished tearoom<\/p>\n<p>The Westgate Hotel is hosting several enchanting teas at its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westgatehotel.com\/venue\/le-fontainebleau\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le Fontainebleau<\/a> room.<\/p>\n<p>The first event is the Witches of the Westgate Tea, this Saturday and Sunday. Sunday is sold out, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westgatehotel.com\/event\/witches-of-the-westgate-tea\/2025-10-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bookings remain for Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Guests are \u201cinvited to don their most bewitching attire\u201d and enjoy pastries, sandwiches, tea and cocktails, a brand representative wrote in an email. Adults can enjoy a champagne toast, and children will bring home a gift.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A tea spread and more at the Westgate Hotel's Witches of the Westgate Tea party. (The Westgate Hotel)\" width=\"1500\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SUT-L-Witches-Tea-WESTGATE-HOTEL.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9499528\" \/>A tea spread and more at the Westgate Hotel&#8217;s Witches of the Westgate Tea party. (The Westgate Hotel)<\/p>\n<p>And just after Halloween, on Nov. 2, the Westgate is hosting its Hocus Pocus Tea, where the chilling Sanderson Sisters will \u201cput a spell on you as you sip freshly brewed tea potions, creepy cocktails, and devour frightfully delicious sandwitches and sweet treats.\u201d Here, too, champagne and a gift will be offered to guests according to their age.<\/p>\n<p>The Hocus Pocus Tea runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the hotel\u2019s Versailles Ballroom. Reservations are available at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westgatehotel.com\/event\/hocus-pocus-tea\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hotel website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Grocery Outlet supermarket is coming to Pacific Beach, according to a banner on a vacant building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[387,181,14417,14969,1969,74,76,75,1696],"class_list":{"0":"post-17523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-pb-monthly","11":"tag-pb-monthly-business","12":"tag-retail","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-headlines","15":"tag-san-diego-news","16":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}