With the Safeway on the border of North Beach and Fisherman's Wharf closing its doors, local residents' trips to the grocery store will soon look a lot different.
"Now, I've got to spend money to go elsewhere to shop," Shepard Sanders said. He's used to being able to walk to the grocery store.
"It's about 20,000 residents within a half mile of the store. For those families, for those seniors, it's going to be more difficult to get affordable groceries all of a sudden," Sauter said."For residents in the neighborhood, particularly for the hundreds of units of low-income housing across the street, it's a big problem."
"This is going to leave a big hole in the neighborhood," Sauter said."It's going to make it more difficult for all of those other businesses that may have relied upon that foot traffic from people going to or from Safeway. So it really has compounding effects.""Because this is such a big deal, North Beach Neighbors is launching a petition to bring in another affordable grocery store," he said.
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