The Bi-Rite Effect

Local Landmark Bi-Rite Grocery Store in Mission Dolores.

With only 2 shops in the city, Bi-Rite rather impressively garners more than 7% of the grocery store mentions in the San Francisco MLS. If you thought San Francisco homes were expensive, go grocery shopping at Bi-Rite. It’s an expensively delicious good time!

The Bi-Rite Neighborhoods

Alamo Square The site of perhaps the most photographed vista in San Francisco, Alamo Square is home to the world-famous Painted Ladies. The row of iconic Victorian homes, with the city skyline as the backdrop, provides a picture-perfect postcard view of San ...

Mission Dolores Not quite the Mission, not quite the Castro, Mission Dolores is a bustling, centrally located neighborhood with some iconic San Francisco attractions. The crown jewels of the neighborhood are Dolores Park and Mission Dolores, the oldest Spanish ...

North Panhandle Flat streets dotted with gingerbread Victorians and unashamedly modern interpretations of Edwardians run parallel to the panhandle of Golden Gate Park. It's all you love about Golden Gate Park, just a little more central. ...

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Safeway, with 16 grocery stores in San Francisco, offers the most geographic coverage. Logic would suggest it gets the most mentions. But no. Whole Foods, the granola-hugger-grocer-turned-Amazon-megacorp, with half the number of stores in the city as Safeway, manages to garner more than double the mentions of Safeway.

But most impressive is the cachet of Bi-Rite, which has only two stores in town but manages to pull down 7.3% of the grocery store mentions. Put another way, Safeway has 8x more locations than Bi-Rite, and only got 3x more mentions…

As for Trader Joe’s? With six stores in the city (about the same number as Whole Foods), it lands in third place with 10% of the mentions. Whole Foods has about the same number of stores, but gets 5x the mentions!

Aspirational shopping?

Neighborhoods with a Whole Foods

1288 Howard Built in 2021, 1288 Howard is home to 125 residences in the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood at the intersection of 9th Street and Howard Street on the Northeast corner. Notable features of the bui...

360 5th Street 360 5th Street will be home to 127 residences on eight floors in the SOMA neighborhood. Notable features of the building include a landscaped fully interior courtyard, and a shared roof deck with cook...

88 At The Park | 88 Arkansas Scheduled for completion in 2021; 88 at the Park is home to 127 residences in the Potrero Hill neighborhood. Notable features of the mid-rise building include a sweet location near Jackson Square Park...

H2O Lofts | 1247 Harrison Built in 2004, the H2O Lofts is home to 28 residences at 1247 Harrison St. in the South of Market Area (SOMA) neighborhood in San Francisco. Notable features in the building include an elevator and se...

Haight Ashbury Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead. 1968. Victorians, Edwardians, street punks, and skater kids. Everyone has an idea of what the Haight should be. Come discover what it actually is for yourself....

Ingleside Ingleside is a lot more down-to-earth than some of its swankier neighbors on the north end of town, and it's also a lot more affordable. Homes tend to be modest, some in the same family for generations. Unexpected views of downtown add to the at...

Maison a SOMA | 230 7th Street Built in 2021, Maison a SOMA is home to 40 residences in the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood. Notable features of the building include resident’s garden with barbeque, Latch home automation ...

Noe Valley Sunny, sedate, central, strollers, and tech-centric. Once upon a time home searches began in Pacific Heights and settled for Noe Valley. Now home searches begin here and settle for Pacific Heights. Connect with a Jackson Fuller Real Estate ag...

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Neighborhoods with a Trader Joe's

1288 Howard Built in 2021, 1288 Howard is home to 125 residences in the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood at the intersection of 9th Street and Howard Street on the Northeast corner. Notable features of the bui...

360 5th Street 360 5th Street will be home to 127 residences on eight floors in the SOMA neighborhood. Notable features of the building include a landscaped fully interior courtyard, and a shared roof deck with cook...

Crescent Nob Hill | 875 California Crescent at 875 California Street is home to 44 luxury residences in the Nob Hill neighborhood. Notable features of the building include an incredible number of unique floor plans,  private wings with...

H2O Lofts | 1247 Harrison Built in 2004, the H2O Lofts is home to 28 residences at 1247 Harrison St. in the South of Market Area (SOMA) neighborhood in San Francisco. Notable features in the building include an elevator and se...

Laurel Heights Laurel Heights: east of Jordan Park and south of that ridiculous parking lot behind Laurel Village where you can loop infinitely while seeking parking. Across the street from Presidio Heights, and so much more than the UCSF campus and a strip ma...

Maison a SOMA | 230 7th Street Built in 2021, Maison a SOMA is home to 40 residences in the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood. Notable features of the building include resident’s garden with barbeque, Latch home automation ...

Nob Hill The Comstock. Jones St. Drop-dead downtown views. Polk Street. When elegant begins to get a bit denser and estates become co-ops and full-floor penthouse homes, you'll know you've crossed Van Ness and arrived in Nob Hill....

North Beach Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio in the neighborhood. The rest is history. Welcome to a neighborhood as old as San Francisco, with historic Italian roots, fragrant garlic feasts, and plenty of neighborhood haunts frequented by SF movers and m...

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