University of San Francisco marketing professor Sonja Martin Poole previously told SFGATE. Regionally, Trader Joe’s dominated the West, H-E-B and Publix shared the lead in the South, Sam’s ...

Fulton Retail DE1 bought the commercial space approved four years ago for a Trader Joe’s at 555 Fulton Street, the San Francisco Business Times reported. The seller was China-based Z&L Properties.

The reported sale of a block of condominiums and a future home for Trader Joe’s in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley, at the center of a city corruption case, was only half true. While the ...