Whole Foods Market will open its new 50,780-square-foot store at the Stonestown Galleria Mall in San Francisco on January 12, 2022. The location will offer more than 4,000 local products curated by Patrick Wyman, local forager for Whole Foods Market’s Northern California region, who seeks out products made or grown in the surrounding region.
Special features include a full-service seafood counter stocked with either sustainable wild-caught or Responsibly Farmed fish, and will feature items like house-made garlic herb crab clusters, fresh poke, and ready-to-bake seafood meals. Local options will include caviar and smoked sturgeon from Tsar Nicoulai Caviar.
The store will also offer a selection of 827 wines, including local options like Sho Chiku Bai Junmai and Nigori Sakes from Takara Sake, as well as a specialty department dedicated to cheesemakers and artisan producers of specialty food and drink. Local options will include an exclusive coffee-infused beer, a collaboration between Barebottle Brewing Co. and Andytown Coffee Roasters, and a Raspberry Pistachio Ruby Chocolate Bar from Charles Chocolates and California Black Mission Fig Jam from Jamology.
Organic, conventional, and Sourced for Good local options will fill the produce section, hot and cold food bars, a wide variety of hot soups, an array of grab-and-go sandwich and wrap options, plus a local charcuterie selection and a Chef’s Case with seasonal entrées and sides will also be available.
A full-service meat counter with butchers available to cut steaks to order or debone poultry, a bakery offering fresh cakes, cupcakes, bread, mini muffins, and cookies, and a wellness and beauty section featuring more than 300 local products will round out the store's offerings.
To give back to the Stonestown community, Whole Foods Market will support Farming Hope, a nonprofit that manages garden-to-table job training for formerly incarcerated or homeless San Franciscans. The grocer will also sponsor Food Funded, an annual event that aims to catalyze an equitable funding flow for food ventures.
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