San Francisco's Bayview is finally getting another grocery store
Mi Rancho Supermarket, a local Mexican grocery chain, is opening its first San Francisco location in the city's Bayview neighborhood. Mi Rancho Supermarket, a local Mexican grocery chain, is set to open its first San Francisco location in the Bayview neighborhood. The store will occupy a vacant space at 5900 3rd St., formerly home to Duc Loi’s Pantry. The company confirmed its plans to open the new store in the coming months. This location is part of a larger effort to address the shortage of healthy, affordable food in the area designated by the Department of Agriculture as a food desert in 2019.
Published : a month ago by Madeline Wells in Lifestyle
Mi Rancho Supermarket, a local Mexican grocery chain, is opening its first San Francisco location in the city’s Bayview neighborhood. The grocery store is slated to open in the long-vacant space at 5900 3rd St., formerly home to Duc Loi’s Pantry, as first reported by the San Francisco Standard.
SFGATE could not reach Mi Rancho for comment in time for publication, but the company confirmed to the Standard that it plans to open the new store in the coming months. Mi Rancho has two stores in Redwood City, two stores in San Jose and one in San Leandro. The family-owned business was founded in 1994, with locations featuring fresh produce, a butchery counter, a panaderia and a hot food section with items like tacos and chile relleno.
In 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture categorized Bayview-Hunters Point as a food desert, which is an area where residents have limited access to healthy, affordable food. Since then, a Lucky Supermarket opened in the neighborhood in 2022 in the former Walgreens space at 3801 3rd St. The district also has a Foods Co.
Duc Loi’s Pantry, the former 14,000-square-foot grocery store at 5900 3rd St., closed in 2019 after just three years in business, despite financial and operational support from the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development. Owners Howard and Amanda Ngo also closed the original Duc Loi last year after 36 years in the Mission District. The 5900 3rd St. address also was once home to another failed grocery store: Fresh and Easy, which only lasted from 2011 to 2013, until the company went bankrupt, according to the Standard.
Topics: Food & Drink