{"id":346854,"date":"2026-06-04T18:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346854\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:53:24","slug":"ariana-grande-fans-flock-to-sf-pop-up-store-ahead-of-bay-area-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346854\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande fans flock to SF pop-up store ahead of Bay Area shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/zitmx8qgf46tvldj.jpg\" alt=\"Fans line up awaiting Ariana Grande's merch pop-up store kicking off her tour\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-2601878a=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/zitmx8qgf46tvldj.jpg\" alt=\"Fans line up awaiting Ariana Grande's merch pop-up store kicking off her tour\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-d69731cc=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Fans eagerly awaited Ariana Grande\u2019s merchandise release at her pop-up store on Thursday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Francisco<\/a>&#8216;s Union Square, just as her upcoming and highly anticipated tour kicks off this weekend in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oakland<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Ariana Grande commotion\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Fan Rajzay Johnson stood in line as early as 1 a.m. in front of her pop-up store at 71 Powell St., rocking the same name as her tour, &#8220;The Eternal Sunshine Tour.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Because I love her so much\u2026 She&#8217;s really the voice of our generation, so why not bask in her like this?&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;Cause after this she may not go on a concert for a long time, so we\u00a0have to be in the now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Grande has recently starred in two blockbuster movies, &#8220;Wicked&#8221; and &#8220;Wicked: For Good,&#8221; and many of her fans have been unsure if she&#8217;d return to the music scene again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">As a Grammy-award winning musician, this tour is her reintroduction to performing on a concert stage since her last tour, &#8220;Sweetener World Tour,&#8221; concluded in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The sold-out <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.arianagrande.com\/pages\/tour-hub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;The Eternal Sunshine Tour&#8221;<\/a> begins on Saturday at the Oakland Arena, with two more shows following next Tuesday and Wednesday before she moves on to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear why Oakland was her first stop on her 41-date tour, but fans are excited.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">People from all over are gearing up for her performances with her merchandise. Items that are available include tees, tanks, hoodies, accessories, and so much more at the shop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Mia D&#8217;Aquino from Florida said, &#8220;Her vocal range is so amazing, and I think she&#8217;s an amazing songwriter too. She has a lot of lyrics I can relate to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Pop-up details <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Want Some Merch?:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The store opens at 10 a.m. and it\u2019s located at 71 Powell St. between Market and Union Square. Prices for merchandise range from $15 for a keychain to $85 for a branded hoodie.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The store plans to remain open until June 10, which is the date of her final show at the Oakland Arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Grande has all the details of the tour dates and locations that she&#8217;ll be stopping at posted on her official <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.arianagrande.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Ariana Grande&#8217;s official tour website and interviews with Rajzay Johnson and Mia D&#8217;Aquino.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/entertainment\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Fans eagerly awaited Ariana Grande\u2019s merchandise release at her pop-up store on Thursday in San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,967,100,143,145,144,101,1181],"class_list":["post-346854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346854","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=346854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}