The Lucky Supermarket in Bayview Is Closing November 1, Just Three Years After Its Grand Opening

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/19/the-lucky-supermarket-in-bayview-is-closing-november-1-just-three-years-after-its-grand-opening/Nearly three years to the day after its highly touted grand opening, the Bayview Lucky Supermarket is closing permanently on November 1, and leaving a big grocery-store size hole in the food desert neighborhood. People have referred to SF’s Bayview District as a "food desert" for years, and that is also the actual assessment of the area from the federal government. While the US Department of Agriculture technically no longer uses the term “food desert,” they’ve replaced it with the term “low-income, low-access” food area, and gave the Bayview that designation in 2019. That’s why it was a big deal when a Lucky Supermarket opened