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Danville is losing one of its mainstay grocery stores, with the Lucky California location in the Sycamore Square Shopping Center set to close for good next month.
Signs affixed to the glass entry doors and checkout stations alert shoppers to the impending closure – as do the shelves and refrigerator and freezer cases, many of which were only partially stocked on Monday afternoon.
“STORE CLOSURE. This store will permanently close on Friday, July 17th,” read the paper signs. “You can still enjoy your Lucky shopping experience at our other nearby location: 21001 San Ramon Valley Blvd., San Ramon.”
The Save Mart Companies, which owns Lucky California, had not replied to a request for comment as of 3:30 p.m. Monday. The store’s Facebook page did not reference the closure, with regular product promotion posts continuing as usual as recently as Saturday.
The grocery store has been an anchor tenant for multiple decades at 660 San Ramon Valley Blvd. in Sycamore Square, several blocks south of downtown Danville – although the name has changed this century.
The store switched from Lucky to Albertson’s (before the latter chain lost its apostrophe) after a parent company acquisition in 1999. It then switched back to the Lucky name in 2007 after Save Mart bought the brand the year prior. The final rebranding occurred in 2019 when Save Mart converted the store into its Lucky California concept.
This marks the second Lucky California closure in the Tri-Valley in nearly three years, with the store in Fallon Gateway in Dublin shuttering in the fall of 2023. In addition to the San Ramon location, Lucky still operates stores in Pleasanton and Livermore.
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