T&T Supermarket, Canada's largest Asian grocery chain, has opened its first San Francisco store at 2675 Geary Blvd. near Masonic Avenue. KTVU reported that lines formed hours before opening, with shoppers coming from as far away as Concord.
The 50,000-square-foot store is in Anza Vista's City Center complex, in a space that had sat empty since a Best Buy closed nearly a decade ago. The San Francisco Standard reported that it includes a T&T Cafe, the chain's first in the U.S., and some items not sold at the San Jose store, such as "baby bear bao."
T&T was founded in Vancouver in 1993 by Cindy and Jack Lee and now runs about 40 stores, mostly in Canada. Its first California store opened in San Jose in June. CEO Tina Lee told KTVU that San Francisco had the fastest permitting of any U.S. location the company has opened. "He assured me that it wasn't going to take three and a half years to get a permit," she told the Standard about Mayor Daniel Lurie.
More stores are coming. Lee told the Standard that a Millbrae store on South El Camino Real will open by summer 2027, followed by a fourth Bay Area store at Newark's NewPark Mall, in the former Macy's.