• Join Puck

    Directly Supporting Authors

    A new economic model in which writers are also partners in the business.

    Personalized Subscriptions

    Customize your settings to receive the newsletters you want from the authors you follow.

    Stay in the Know

    Connect directly with Puck talent through email and exclusive events.

  • What is puck? Newsletters Authors Podcasts Events Gift Puck Careers

The Week in Shopping: “Mayhem at the Mart”

Reflections on Jim Rosenfield’s agreeably bougie mecca for Bay Area fashion worthies and families on weekends, plus some informed speculation about what comes next.

Jim Rosenfield
Developer Jim Rosenfield put The Marin County Mart—a shopping and dining and spa destination—together as a community gathering place for wealthy and comfortable families. Photo: Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
Sarah Shapiro
April 4, 2025

Tucked into the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Country Mart is a sleepy shopping enclave that turns into “mayhem at the mart,” in the words of one proprietor, on Saturdays. The agreeably bougie mall is a regular, one-stop destination for fashion-forward Bay Area worthies disenchanted with the usual Silicon Valley fleece livery, or Marin County moms looking for that effortless, but deeply sourced, weekend outfit. “Beautiful shopping area, almost always warm and sunny, 20 minutes from the city, plenty of parking,” said one chuffed regular.