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The Market, a high-end grocery store inside of the former X headquarters in San Francisco’s Mid-Market, announced it planned to close this week after more than a decade in business. Grocery sales plunged from around $60,000 per day in 2019 to $2,300 per day, making the store unsustainable.

Apple announced it will invest over $500 billion to expand its U.S. operations over the next four years. The ambitious plan included building a new manufacturing facility, doubling its advanced manufacturing fund and creating 20,000 new jobs.

A new bagel shop in San Francisco’s Mission District promises to have the freshest bagels no matter what time of day.

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman is on the cusp of expanding his artificial intelligence empire at the San Francisco waterfront.

The historic Warfield building in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood was supposed to be the first downtown office-to-housing conversion in the wake of the pandemic. But, last week, the building sold to new owners with a different vision.

Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, is eliminating hundreds of jobs and closing its office in Charlotte, N.C., as part of its strategy to consolidate employees at its main hubs in California and Arkansas.

One of the keys to building wealth is what’s in your kitchen. No, not your gadgets – your groceries. Everyone’s food budget has gone up thanks to inflation, but cooking at home is still almost always cheaper than going out to eat, writes our personal finance columnist Jessica Roy. These are the pantry staples that you should always buy when you see them on sale at the grocery store.

At 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s 10% tariffs on goods imported into the U.S. from China went into effect. What does this all mean for you in California? It means almost everything’s about to get more expensive. Here’s why: https://lnkd.in/gfzi3TqE

Salesforce is reportedly laying off more than 1,000 workers, though it will continue to hire artificial intelligence salespeople, according to Bloomberg. The tech giant, which is San Francisco's largest private employer, previously cut around 300 jobs last July and 700 at the beginning of 2024.

When the Davises put down a $86,300 deposit on their 2,000-square-foot modular home in January 2024, they were promised that it would be manufactured by June. Thanksgiving came and went, and so did Christmas. Now, a year later, work on the couple’s property is at a standstill. The Davis family is among a group of California homebuyers who have been left waiting by Connect Homes. The homebuyers say the company took their money while failing to deliver the product, and has repeatedly dodged their questions about delivery. Industry stakeholders say it’s not an uncommon story in the modular housing construction space.