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The Save Mart Companies Opens Innovative Lucky Bayview
Small Footprint, Full-Service Grocery Store in San Francisco

Lucky Bayview represents transformational new chapter for the company

 

SAN FRANCISCO – October 26, 2022 – The Save Mart Companies (TSMC), California’s largest regional grocer, announced today the opening of its eagerly anticipated, innovative new Lucky Bayview grocery store. Located in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood, this grocery store offers residents and businesses fresh quality groceries and meal solutions at the low prices that Lucky stands for as a low-price leader. 

“The opening of Lucky Bayview, a small-footprint, full-service store, represents a transformational new chapter in The Save Mart Companies’ storied history of serving our shoppers and fulfilling their needs with innovative and affordable solutions,” said Shane Sampson, executive chairman of the board of The Save Mart Companies.  “This store repurposes and maximizes a vacated 9,549-square-foot retail location and to affirm Lucky’s commitment to the community, ‘Bayview’ is incorporated into the store’s name.”  

In addition to providing quality groceries, Lucky Bayview is committed to working with community groups and organizations and hiring directly from the neighborhood. Lucky Bayview is working with Young Community Developers in Bayview for employment opportunities. Currently, 90% of the store team is from the Bayview community. Furthermore, to celebrate the grand opening, Lucky Bayview announced $3,000 in community investments including $1,000 to Dr. George Washington Carver Elementary School.  Lucky Bayview designated Carver Elementary School for its Adopt-A-School program which will provide year-round support from the Lucky Bayview team including teacher treats, donated books for National Reading Day, store tours and other resources. Bayview Senior Services received a $1,000 gift card donation to help support cooking class demonstrations and Bayview Hunter’s Point YMCA received a $1,000 gift card donation to help support the Primed and Prepped Culinary Arts Program.

Additional Bayview community groups collaborating with The Save Mart Companies include:
o    Young Community Developers
o    Citizen Advisory Committee for the Shipyard and Hunters Point 
o    Bayview Merchants Association
o    San Francisco Produce Market
o    Earl’s Organic Produce 
o    Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates
o    Bayview YMCA Latino Taskforce
o    Third Street Youth Clinic
o    Economic Development on Third

Lucky stores have been serving the San Francisco community since the 1950s with current locations at 1515 Sloat Blvd. and 1750 Fulton Street. There are currently 67 Lucky stores in the greater Bay Area and surrounding communities. 

Lucky Bayview is open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily and, as with all Lucky stores in San Francisco, offers online shopping and home delivery by Instacart, providing online shoppers in the Bayview community with convenient access to fresh, quality groceries at low, affordable prices. 

About Lucky Bayview
Lucky Bayview delivers a full-service grocery shopping experience with fresh, quality groceries in an innovative small-store footprint. Located along the bustling Third Street corridor in the heart of San Francisco’s Bayview district, the store offers the freshest local products, varied and eclectic flavors and always offering shoppers exceptional value. With 67 stores from Carmel to Ukiah and around the San Francisco Bay Area, Lucky is proudly a regional grocery store and part of The Save Mart Companies, a Kingswood Capital Management, LP portfolio company. The company operates more than 200 traditional and price impact stores under the banners of Save Mart, Lucky and FoodMaxx. In addition to its retail operation, the company also operates Smart Refrigerated Transport and is a partner in Super Store Industries (SSI), which owns and operates a distribution center in Lathrop and the Sunnyside Farms dairy processing plant in Turlock. For more information about Lucky Bayview, please visit: LuckyBayview.com.

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MEDIA CONTACTS:
Glodow Nead Communications for The Save Mart Companies
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