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Grocery Outlet Chain Signs Lease To Open Two SF Stores

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF)—San Francisco city officials celebrated Wednesday's lease signings to open two Grocery Outlet stores in the Richmond District and Visitacion Valley.

The grocery store chain, headquartered in Berkeley, executed the lease agreements earlier this month and will hold a midday news conference on Wednesday with Supervisor Eric Mar, marking the occasion according to company spokesman Charles Goodyear.

The stores are expected to open by next summer or fall, Goodyear said.

Up to 70 employees will be hired at the two stores, which will be located at 6333 Geary Blvd. and 2630 Bayshore Blvd., according to Goodyear.

Mar said in a statement that Grocery Outlet "offers San Franciscans the healthy and affordable food choices I have been advocating for."

Supervisor Malia Cohen, whose district includes Visitacion Valley, said that neighborhood "has been working for years to attract and sustain a grocery store."

Cohen said Visitacion Valley "will benefit greatly from an anchor grocery store that can provide fresh, healthy food and complement our small neighborhood markets."

Grocery Outlet currently has 185 stores in six Western states as well as Pennsylvania.

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