{"id":226704,"date":"2026-03-19T09:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/226704\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:07:19","slug":"grocery-outlet-signs-lease-for-store-in-oakland-at-empty-retail-site-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/226704\/","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Outlet signs lease for store in Oakland at empty retail site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 Grocery Outlet has signed a lease to open a supermarket at a shuttered store site in Oakland in a deal that could bring jobs and foot traffic to an empty property.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.groceryoutlet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">discount supermarket retailer<\/a> is eyeing a location at 301 East 18th St. in Oakland, according to documents filed on March 10 with the Alameda County Recorder\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Grocery Outlet signed a lease for the property, the public real estate files show. The site is near the corner of East 18th Street and Third Avenue in the Eastlake neighborhood of Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>Walgreens closed its store on East 18th Street in early 2025. The retail site is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/02\/05\/economy-jobs-layoff-bay-area-san-leandro-bloomindales-walgreens-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">several stores Walgreens has closed in California<\/a> and elsewhere as it downsizes.<\/p>\n<p>At practically the same time, Grocery Outlet has decided to close 36 stores, primarily on the East Coast, that the supermarket chain deemed to be underperforming, company executives disclosed during a March 4 conference call with Wall Street analysts.<\/p>\n<p>In California, none of the Grocery Outlet stores slated to close are in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p>During the same conference call, Chief Executive Officer Jason Potter told the analysts that Grocery Outlet has also decided to open 30 to 33 new stores around the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to plan to open another 30 to 33 net new stores in 2026, but they do reflect a more disciplined approach,\u201d Potter said during the call.<\/p>\n<p>Emeryville-based Grocery Outlet\u2019s revamped strategy will be on display as it opens stores in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese locations will start as company-run with the intent of bringing them up to profitability before handing them over to independent operators,\u201d Potter said. \u201cOnce proven, we believe this approach could be applied in more markets as we continue to grow this business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether Grocery Outlet would deploy this approach at the just-leased site in Oakland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 Grocery Outlet has signed a lease to open a supermarket at a shuttered store site in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,387,7,8,3010,1335,332,383,12043,413,1286,1533,9356,181,100,143,145,144,182,388,1969,5347,22494],"class_list":["post-226704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-business","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-commercial-real-estate","tag-development","tag-east-bay","tag-economy","tag-emeryville","tag-food","tag-jobs","tag-keywee","tag-lake-merritt","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-pm-report","tag-real-estate","tag-retail","tag-retail-development","tag-retail-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226704","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=226704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}