Grocery Outlet opened its newest San Francisco location Thursday on the edge of North Beach and Fisherman\u2019s Wharf, ahead of the company\u2019s 80th anniversary this weekend.<\/p>\n
Mayor Daniel Lurie held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday for the official opening of the new Grocery Outlet at 350 Bay Street, as KPIX reports<\/a>. The store is independently owned and operated by Jacqueline and Joel Lanoie, who noted that Grocery Outlet was founded in San Francisco, and the company’s 80th anniversary is this weekend. <\/p>\n \u201cOur focus is delivering affordable groceries for our customers,\u201d Joel Lanoie said, speaking to KPIX.<\/p>\n The new 30,000-square-foot Grocery Outlet fills the long-vacant space left behind when Safeway closed in 2023, leaving the neighborhood without a full-service grocery store. <\/p>\n \u201cFor many families, food has been difficult without a full-scale grocery store these past three years since the Safeway closed in 2023,\u201d Lurie said Thursday.<\/p>\n With Trader Joe\u2019s located across the street from Grocery Outlet, the two stores fill many of the gaps in service, but KPIX notes that neither is a full-service supermarket on the scale of the Safeway that previously occupied the site.<\/p>\n The NorthPoint Centre Mall, where the new Grocery Outlet is located, went up for sale<\/a> in 2023 soon after Safeway closed, which was eventually purchased for $25.76 million, along with the connected NorthPoint Vistas apartment building, by San Jose-based Anchor Pacific Capital, which partnered with an unnamed family firm on the deal. APC\u2019s Anton Qiu said at the time that the company planned to take a long-term approach to the property.<\/p>\n \u201cIt needs a lot of work, but we\u2019re willing to put in more capital to make it work,\u201d Qiu said.<\/p>\n In September 2024, Grocery Outlet was officially announced<\/a> as the new tenant, and after nearly two years of construction, the store finally opened its doors Thursday.<\/p>\n Be advised before you go \u2014 many Grocery Outlet locations are equipped with facial recognition software<\/a> that scans customers faces at its entrances. <\/p>\n