Grocery and pharmacy store hours in and around San Francisco

Note: This is archived, no longer accurate information.

Businesses are no longer restricting hours or occupancy. As of 2022, stores have gone back to regular hours; at any rate, the most accurate and up-to-date information about store hours can be found on the store’s website or in your favorite maps app.

Under the City’s shelter-in-place order and the Governor’s shelter-in-place order, grocery stores are considered “essential” businesses and are allowed to remain open.

However, many stores have cut back on open hours, and some grocery stores have instituted vulnerable-persons hours, in which the store is reserved for those most vulnerable to COVID-19 (older customers as well as those who are immunocompromised or have chronic respiratory diseases).

In the interest of ensuring people can get the supplies they need, we’ve compiled a list of grocery and pharmacy chains in and around the City, as well as a few other chains like Target that sell groceries and/or have pharmacies, and the modifications they’ve made to their hours, including whatever we’ve been able to find out about vulnerable-persons hours.

You should also check your local corner store. Some corner stores may still have stock that got missed by the rush that occurred in the week prior to the first shelter-in-place orders, and Asian markets in particular have been hit by the double-whammy of people sheltering in place and racism against Asian (and especially Chinese) residents and businesses.

Lastly: Please be forgiving to staff anywhere you shop, and when you order take-out or delivery, tip generously if you can. This time is hard on all of us, including restaurant and grocery workers who are doing what they can to ensure that we all have food and basic supplies through it.

Last updated: 2020-04-16; see changelog below

If you know of an update to one of the chains listed here, or a chain that we missed and should add, please email contact at indivisiblesf.org.

Store chain	Labor note	Open hours	Vulnerable-persons hours
99¢ Only		8am–8pm for the general public	7am–8am, Tue and Thu at some stores and every day at others
Andronico's (owned by Safeway)		Yes; check your store	Tuesdays and Thursdays, from opening until 9am
Big Lots		Check your store; some hours adjusted “to follow state and local restrictions”	First hour after opening every day
Costco		Check your store, but store closes at 6:30pm, gas station at 7pm (on weekdays; weekend hours unchanged)	Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 8–9am, for “members 60 and older, and for those with physical impairments,” including the pharmacy but not the food court
CVS Pharmacy		Check your store, but seems unchanged	No
Daiso		Check your store (they don't have a store locator online, so you'll have to use your maps app or check in person)	Nothing posted online
Dollar General		Check your store; all stores close one hour earlier than before	First hour after opening every day
Dollar Tree		Check your store; all stores close no later than 8pm	First hour after opening every day
FoodsCo (Kroger)	Kroger has uneven policies ranging from restricted paid sick leave to no paid sick leave	8am–8pm	No
Grocery Outlet		Check your store, but seems unchanged	No
Gus’s Community Market		8am–8pm	7am–8am
Kmart		Unchanged	No
Lucky		Check your store	Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6am–9am
The Market		8am–8pm (weekdays)/9am–8pm (weekends) for the general public	Used to be first hour after opening; unclear from their website whether this is still in effect
Mollie Stone’s		Check your store	Saturdays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, 7am–8am
Nijiya Market		Check your store	No
Rainbow Grocery	Co-op	10am–7pm for the general public	9am–10am
Rite Aid		Unchanged	No, but they are asking people with symptoms to call ahead or order delivery
Safeway and Pak’n’Save		Check your store	Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7am–9am “at minimum”
Sam’s Club (owned by Walmart)		9am–8pm M–Sat, 10am–6pm Sun	Not specifically, but “Prescheduled Club Pickup” orders are available starting at 7am
Smart & Final		8am–8pm	7:30am–8am
Sprouts		7am–8pm	Only in LA, where it's required by law
Target	Poor communication of inadequate sick leave policies	Closes at 9pm	Tuesdays and Wednesdays, first hour after opening, including in-store pharmacies
Trader Joe’s	Petition for hazard pay at time-and-a-half	9am–7pm	No
Walgreens		Most stores 9am–9pm on weekdays; 24-hour stores are drive-thru only from 9pm–9am	No
Walmart		7am (or later)–8:30pm	Tuesdays from March 24 through April 28, one hour before opening
Whole Foods (owned by Amazon)	Sick-out scheduled for May 1, following previous sick-out on March 31; CEO sent company email encouraging employees to “donate” PTO hours to each other for medical emergencies	Check your store	First hour before listed opening hour every day

Changelog

2020-04-16

Added link to article about second Whole Foods sick-out.

2020-04-11

Added Daiso, Dollar Tree, 99¢ Only, Dollar General, and Big Lots.
Updated info for Sprouts.

2020-03-30

Updated hours for The Market.
Added a link to news article about sick-out at Whole Foods.

2020-03-29

Updated info for Costco with their modified hours and vulnerable-persons hours starting March 30.

2020-03-26

Updated Target’s vulnerable-persons hours.

2020-03-25

Removed expired information (before March 23rd) for The Market.
Updated Mollie Stone’s with their new vulnerable-persons hours. Thanks to Connie for the tip!

2020-03-21

Added Andronico’s updated and vulnerable-persons hours. Thanks to @lahosken for the tip and the nudge to check their Facebook, which we’d missed!
Added vulnerable-persons hours for Costco based on the tip we got from @Tigrrl. Thanks!
Added The Market’s updated hours as of March 23rd, as best we understand them.

2020-03-20

First version.

Peter HMarch 20, 2020