The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/10/nordstrom-opens-its-very-small-new-boutique-nordstrom-local-in-upper-fillmore/Two years after Nordstrom pulled their gigantic department store out of San Francisco, the high-end retailer is back with a small shop that just opened in the Upper Fillmore, though this shop only offers pick-ups, returns, and alterations. 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

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