"The cries of doom loop were already a common refrain when fancy retailer Nordstrom closed its Westfield Centre mall location and nearby Nordstrom Rack in the summer of 2023 (little did we know at the time that Macy's and Bloomingdale's would be the next big dominos to fall). But that downtown SF Nordstrom store had already reduced its national footprint well before the pandemic, and before the coining of the phrase doom loop, because Amazon and online retail were already making downtown destination shopping centers a dying breed."
"KPIX reports that a small, pared-down shop called Nordstrom Local just opened Thursday at 1919 Fillmore Street, in the Upper Fillmore space that was most recently a card shop called Minted. This small, 1,750-square-foot retail store does not carry any actual inventory. Instead, Nordstrom describes their Nordstrom Local store as a "convenient service hub for easy order pickup, returns, [and] alterations, plus the store also offers gift-wrapping and cosmetic packaging recycling.""
Two years after closing its large downtown San Francisco department store, Nordstrom returned with a small service-focused shop in the Upper Fillmore. The Nordstrom Local at 1919 Fillmore Street occupies a 1,750-square-foot space formerly home to Minted and carries no inventory. The shop functions as a service hub for order pickup, returns, alterations, gift-wrapping, and cosmetic packaging recycling. Nordstrom positions the concept as a neighborhood convenience to complement online shopping and adapt to the decline of downtown destination malls caused by Amazon and online retail. This location is the fourth Nordstrom Local in California and the first in Northern California.
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