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Small business preservation is an important step in maintaining a city's cultural identity, which helps provide local residents with employment, a sense of place, and community involvement. Our goal is to provide assistance to businesses that have been long-standing pillars of our community through marketing, business assistance, and specialized grants for our local small businesses that are a part of the Legacy Business Program.

Daily Spotlight:
Haight and Fillmore Whole Foods

Haight and Fillmore Whole Foods
Haight and Fillmore Whole Foods
Family-owned & operated
Business Location
501 Haight St.
Business Type
Grocery Store / Delicatessen
Established
1978
Added to Registry
September 10, 2018

When Haight and Fillmore Whole Foods opened in 1978, it was a much-needed healthy food oasis in the Lower Haight neighborhood that only contained bars, liquor stores, and tobacco shops. The community quickly embraced the store, which is still the only full service grocery store serving the area. Open 365 days a year, Haight and Fillmore won a significant legal battle against the later-established Whole Foods franchise for use of its “Whole Foods” name. Haight and Fillmore Whole Foods, the “Original Whole Foods,” has been family-owned by the Nazzal and Askandafi families for over three decades.

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