San Francisco news and trends

El Lopo’s Restaurant Membership Turns Casual Customers into Regulars 
Subscriptions // August 23, 2023

As restaurants look for ways to drive loyalty, San Francisco wine bar El Lopo is leveraging a membership model to reward its most loyal customers and convert more casual customers into regulars. In an interview with PYMNTS, Daniel Azarkman, El Lopo’s owner, spoke about how the...

Amazon Employees May Be Asked to Return to ‘Main Hubs’
Amazon // July 21, 2023

Amazon’s return-to-the-office mandate is reportedly being ramped up across the country. Employees working remotely or located in smaller remote offices are being told they may have to return to what the company calls its “main hub” locations, including Seattle, New York and San Francisco, the Wall...

Nordstrom Closes San Francisco Stores as Foot Traffic Falls
Retail // May 04, 2023

Nordstrom is reportedly shuttering two of its San Francisco stores amid declining foot traffic. That’s according to a Wednesday (May 3) Wall Street Journal report, which cites a number of factors for the closing, including worries about crime and the persistence of remote work keeping...

Block to Shut San Francisco HQ, Switch to Remote Workforce
Personnel // June 15, 2022

Payments-processing firm Block, previously known as Square, is leaving behind the Market Street headquarters that had been the high-profile company’s San Francisco headquarters when its lease expires in September 2023, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (June 15). The main factor company executives gave for the decision,...

Interviews & Exclusives
Spin And The Urban Commuter’s Last Mile Problem

August 09, 2017
Talking to Karen Webster earlier this summer, Mobike’s Head of International Expansion, Florian Bohnert, said that bikes are a winning strategy for consumers nearly worldwide — and dockless is the wave of the future.

Quick Reads
AI Draws Entrepreneurs Back to San Francisco

February 19, 2024
San Francisco is reportedly once again at the center of a tech revival, with entrepreneurs and investors returning to the city after a period of exodus during the pandemic. Tech leaders who had previously relocated to cities like Miami are now returning to San Francisco, attracted by the city’s boom in artificial intelligence and abundance […]

Amazon Employees May Be Asked to Return to ‘Main Hubs’

July 21, 2023
Amazon’s return-to-the-office mandate is reportedly being ramped up across the country. Employees working remotely or located in smaller remote offices are being told they may have to return to what the...

Nordstrom Closes San Francisco Stores as Foot Traffic Falls

May 04, 2023
Nordstrom is reportedly shuttering two of its San Francisco stores amid declining foot traffic. That’s according to a Wednesday (May 3) Wall Street Journal report, which cites a number of...

Block to Shut San Francisco HQ, Switch to Remote Workforce

June 15, 2022
Payments-processing firm Block, previously known as Square, is leaving behind the Market Street headquarters that had been the high-profile company’s San Francisco headquarters when its lease expires in September 2023,...