T&T Supermarket Opens 50,000-Sq-Ft SF Store as Food Bank Extends Aid

Commercial reinvestment, regional food security, and bicoastal visual art anchored Bay Area community news this week as Canada's largest Asian supermarket chain opened a 50,000-square-foot flagship on Geary Boulevard, the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank extended its home-delivery alliance through 2028, and a downtown Palo Alto gallery unveiled a six-artist exhibition pairing San Francisco and New York streetscapes.

T&T Supermarket Opens 50,000-Square-Foot Store at San Francisco's City Center

Crowds lined up hours before the 9 a.m. ribbon-cutting on Thursday, November 5, 2026, as T&T Supermarket opened its first California store spanning 50,000 square feet at 2675 Geary Boulevard in San Francisco's City Center retail complex, according to The San Francisco Standard and KTVU FOX 2. Occupying a lower-level space beneath Target at Geary and Masonic avenues that had remained vacant for 10 years, the supermarket brings 220 local employees and 200 private-label items to the corridor.

Founded outside Vancouver in 1993 by Cindy and Jack Lee and acquired by Loblaw Companies in 2009, T&T is now led by CEO Tina Lee. Shoppers inside the Geary Boulevard market can browse live seafood tanks, an in-house bakery, freshly carved Peking duck, soup dumplings, made-to-order Taiwanese rice rolls, and a self-serve kitchen offering over 30 hot dishes at 3rd U.S. store location following earlier Washington state openings in Bellevue and Lynnwood. Store shelves also carry Asian beer, wine, spirits, and Korean soju ahead of T&T's planned expansion to San Jose.

SF-Marin Food Bank and Amazon Extend Grocery Delivery Partnership Through 2028

While new retail invigorates commercial corridors, the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank and Amazon announced a 2-year renewal of their home-delivery program to provide 2.6 million meals through 2028 ($1.5 million value in donated logistics support), as detailed in The San Francisco Standard. Led by Food Bank executive director Tanis Crosby, the initiative coordinates weekly doorstep drop-offs for over 8,000 households in SF and Marin counties, focusing on seniors, people with disabilities, and caregivers who cannot easily visit neighborhood pantries.

Since launching in March 2020, the collaboration has completed more than 1 million deliveries and 22 million pounds since 2020 of fresh produce, protein, and shelf-stable staples from the Food Bank's San Francisco and Marin warehouses directly to participating homes.

Palo Alto's Pamela Walsh Gallery Pairs Bicoastal Cityscapes in 'Bay & Borough'

On the Peninsula, gallerist Pamela Walsh opened the exhibition "Bay & Borough" at the Pamela Walsh Gallery at 540 Ramona Street in downtown Palo Alto, as reported by The Almanac and the Mountain View Voice. The show is Bay & Borough featuring 6 contemporary painters working in oil on canvas or panel whose urban landscapes examine the architectural character of San Francisco and New York City.

Three of the participating artists—Andrew Faulkner ("Pac Heights"), Carolyn Meyer ("Manhattan Philosophy" and "SF Layer Cake"), and Larry Horowitz ("Storm Over the Empire State")—are represented on Walsh's regular gallery roster, while three invited painters—Lisa Breslow ("Silver Mist"), Dmitri Cavander ("Broadway to Battery"), and Jenny Wantuch ("Bay Breezes")—joined the dialogue for this show. The exhibition remains open with free admission through December 10, 2026.