The Lucky California store in Danville will permanently close on Friday, July 17, ending a long run at Sycamore Square Shopping Center and leaving shoppers with one less grocery option in town. A sign on the doors points them to the nearby San Ramon location at 21001 San Ramon Valley Blvd. as the company winds down the store.
Phil Keene said the closure was based on economic factors, and the decision came after The Save Mart Companies reviewed the store’s performance. He said the company regularly assesses all of its stores and sometimes has to close an underperforming location. The Danville store sits at 660 San Ramon Valley Blvd. and has served as an anchor tenant for multiple decades, making the shutdown a notable turn for a site that has changed names more than once over the years.
The store was Lucky before becoming Albertson’s in 1999 after a parent company acquisition, then switched back to the Lucky name in 2007 after Save Mart bought the brand the year before. It was converted to the Lucky California concept in 2019. That history is part of why the closure lands so hard in Danville: this was not a short-lived experiment, but a long-running grocery presence that adapted as ownership and branding changed.
The move also sits uneasily beside the company’s broader message. Keene said The Save Mart Companies is still growing and improving the shopping experience for customers, even as it closes this Danville store. He said team members would be considered for transfers to nearby locations based on availability and seniority, but he did not say how many employees work at the Danville location or how many will be affected.
The Danville shutdown is the second Lucky California closure in the Tri-Valley in nearly three years. The Lucky California store in Fallon Gateway in Dublin shuttered in the fall of 2023, while Lucky still operates in Pleasanton and Livermore. For shoppers watching the chain’s footprint in the Valley, July 17 is the date that turns a neighborhood fixture into another chapter in a quiet contraction.
