After being a staple of the Castro neighborhood for more than 50 years, the owners of the Buffalo Whole Foods Market posted signs advising that the store will soon be closing.<\/p>\n
Long time customers of the store first noticed these signs go up on the windows in the last few days. Those signs were advertising 40% off everything and stating the store was \u201cclosing next week\u201d.<\/p>\n
It was a shock and disappointment for people who work and live in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Faith Alcarez works at the perfume store across the street. She says she’s become pretty friendly with the workers at the store and will miss the bodega cat.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe’s at the owners house now. But it’s really sad to see her go. I’d always visit her on on my lunch,\u201d Alcarez said.<\/p>\n
Buffalo Whole Foods has been here for 51 years.<\/p>\n
It was bought by the longtime owner of the nearby Noe Hill Market, Sami Bsisso, in 2021. But at about the same time that sale was completed he died of COVID-19.<\/p>\n
So, his two sons, Said and Hisham Bsisso took over both markets. But in May, they sold the Noe Hill Market.<\/p>\n
According to details of a fundraiser that’s posted on the Buffalo Whole Foods store window and loyal customers, they’ve had some recent challenges staying open.<\/p>\n
NBC Bay Area reached out to the business but haven\u2019t heard back. The store was also closed on Friday.<\/p>\n
People who live and work in the area say this store going out of business will be a big loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being a staple of the Castro neighborhood for more than 50 years, the owners of the Buffalo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-420343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420343","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=420343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}