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SAN FRANCISCO – PetSmart<\/a>, the nation’s largest pet supply retailer, will close its only store in San Francisco next week.<\/p>\n The company confirmed the store will close July 19, citing pet owners’ “evolving” shopping habits, the San Francisco<\/a> store’s “long-term viability,” and online ordering.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why is PetSmart closing in San Francisco? <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n “As more customers choose online ordering, autoship and same-day delivery, we’re continuing to adapt how we serve pet parents across the Bay Area,” a representative said in an email to KTVU.<\/p>\n The company encouraged pet owners to shop at its Daly City location, which will be expanding its online fulfillment capabilities.<\/p>\n The San Francisco store, located on Geary Boulevard, offers training, grooming and a dog day camp, in addition to retail shopping.<\/p>\n PetSmart has over 1,600 locations in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, making it the nation’s largest pet retailer behind Petco, and employs more than 50,000 employees.<\/p>\n It was founded in Phoenix in 1986 and was acquired by a private equity firm BC Partners in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n The company says its San Francisco employees will be offered transitional resources and opportunities to relocate to other Bay Area stores following the closure.<\/p>\n The Source: PetSmart spokesperson and information from the retailer’s website.<\/p>\n San Francisco<\/a>Business<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO – PetSmart, the nation’s largest pet supply retailer, will close its only store in San Francisco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[387,1184,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":["post-395055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395055","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=395055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}