It's not even just that, it's that she said it so smugly like, Now you know why they're out of business haha and it's like...I can see how someone could spend $100 on pre-made meals and wine. But $300 on Starbucks??? |
Nothing local at all about Safeway and Starbucks. If you direct your money to local businesses, your money will stay in the community and come back to you |
This. What DC should do is allow a commercial landlord to set whatever rent they want for a reasonable time, but every month after six months if they do not fill the space there should be an increased vacancy tax or penalty or whatnot. Idk, someone smart with economics could address it his so that it did not force landlords to rent but also disincentives "holding out". Too many vacant properties and absurd rents charged. |
Fully agree. Safeway and Starbucks ships in workers from out of state. |
I keep forgetting this board is anti union. |
East to spend $15/ a go with a pricey drink plus breakfast item. That does get to $300/month easy. |
Blue Bottle recently reopened its Midtown Center location and Tattes, Compass Coffees, etc are popping up all over left and right. I can definitely see the closed Foxtrots repurposed by the competing cafe chains. Maybe the newly emboldened Firehook Bakery will swoop in with a new trend-setting concept. |
Except that it’s illegal in this case. Given how many people were impacted, the law says they should’ve provided 60 days notice. There’s already a class action lawsuit. They must have really been up sh*t’s creek to skip this step. |
What about the above is anti-union? |
It was sarcasm. Safeway's Starbuck employees are union members. The store stays in business because I go there regularly. The employees get paid. |
Why is this in Local Politics? Shouldn't it be in restaurants? |
100% yes. The plan seemed to be: take the mom and pop corner store, turn it into a corporate chain geared at younger office workers, profit. |
I am pretty sure the business plan was to lease prime real estate during middle of pandemic at low cost and then profit when people return to work. They even accounted for working from home by having seating to encourage people to work there. I am sure their slide deck said something about “third places” or nonsense like that. Essentially, their niche was to provide a well stocked kitchen to work from remotely or to drop in and grab a bite if you were in the office - like you were used to doing when you worked at home. |
The baked goods at Foxtrot were abhorrent and coffee drinks mediocre at best, not to mention overpriced. Tatte has it right, so does Firehook. Foxtrot tried to be a high end 7-11 and it still sucked. |
Not really - le pain quotidian was there for years |