A new Grocery Outlet supermarket is coming to Pacific Beach, according to a banner on a vacant building on Garnet Avenue. The discount grocer has roughly 20 stores in San Diego County, from San Ysidro to Fallbrook.

This store, at Garnet Avenue and Everts Street, will open in a relatively grocery dense area of Pacific Beach, a few blocks from a Trader Joe’s and Vons, and across the street from Sprouts. The closest Grocery Outlets are in Point Loma and Mira Mesa, so this location plugs a gap for San Diego’s central coastal neighborhoods.

The building itself once housed a Trader Joe’s.

Grocery Outlook buys excess products “for pennies on the dollar, passing the savings on to you.” The local store owners choose what to stock, “personalizing each store’s selection to its local community,” th

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