Palisades: Safeway is closing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do people not want the Safeway site redeveloped? It's so ugly.

Can you read?

[Anonymous]

Folks in Palisades like their "village in the city" and don't want it to become another Van Ness or Friendship Heights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks in Palisades like their "village in the city" and don't want it to become another Van Ness or Friendship Heights.

Villages should have a grocery store though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Folks in Palisades like their "village in the city" and don't want it to become another Van Ness or Friendship Heights.

Villages should have a grocery store though.

Safeway wants you to drive to Georgetown and back the SUV up for a 15 bag order.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Folks in Palisades like their "village in the city" and don't want it to become another Van Ness or Friendship Heights.

Villages should have a grocery store though.

Safeway wants you to drive to Georgetown and back the SUV up for a 15 bag order.

I don't think their mega-store in Georgetown has had quite the traffic Safeway anticipated when they built it, so closing smaller stores is one way to drive customers to it. It's strange how these large grocers, with their newer big box-fits-all models, don't quite get the city consumer. A lot of folks around here shop like little ol' European ladies, going (sometimes walking or jogging) to the grocery store more frequently for fresher food and smaller orders. They want to get in, get what they want and get out quickly and find the 60,000 or 70,000 sq ft exurb sized stores offputting for their purposes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Folks in Palisades like their "village in the city" and don't want it to become another Van Ness or Friendship Heights.

Villages should have a grocery store though.

Safeway wants you to drive to Georgetown and back the SUV up for a 15 bag order.

I don't think their mega-store in Georgetown has had quite the traffic Safeway anticipated when they built it, so closing smaller stores is one way to drive customers to it. It's strange how these large grocers, with their newer big box-fits-all models, don't quite get the city consumer. A lot of folks around here shop like little ol' European ladies, going (sometimes walking or jogging) to the grocery store more frequently for fresher food and smaller orders. They want to get in, get what they want and get out quickly and find the 60,000 or 70,000 sq ft exurb sized stores offputting for their purposes.

Not to mention in GEORGETOWN. There is no such thing as getting in and out quickly anywhere there. Wisconsin ave is a total disaster RIGHT THERE. Always has been.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Folks in Palisades like their "village in the city" and don't want it to become another Van Ness or Friendship Heights.

Villages should have a grocery store though.

Safeway wants you to drive to Georgetown and back the SUV up for a 15 bag order.

I don't think their mega-store in Georgetown has had quite the traffic Safeway anticipated when they built it, so closing smaller stores is one way to drive customers to it. It's strange how these large grocers, with their newer big box-fits-all models, don't quite get the city consumer. A lot of folks around here shop like little ol' European ladies, going (sometimes walking or jogging) to the grocery store more frequently for fresher food and smaller orders. They want to get in, get what they want and get out quickly and find the 60,000 or 70,000 sq ft exurb sized stores offputting for their purposes.

Not to mention in GEORGETOWN. There is no such thing as getting in and out quickly anywhere there. Wisconsin ave is a total disaster RIGHT THERE. Always has been.

Yeah - I'm not sure they realize how many of us in upper NW hate going anywhere near Georgetown.

[Anonymous]

I hope they never close the Chevy Chase safeway. It may not be hip, but it's the right size. I can find what I need there and the parking is adequate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason they are leaving is because a bunch of jealous, geriatric ninnies were blocking Safeway from making logical redevelopment plans. Beating garbage cans, putting signs in yards. Totally sucks we will not have a grocery store now.

It's always the same bunch ranting + the bunch of imbecilic corpses on the ANC = no grocery store for the normal, busy families who have no time for this kind of stupidity.

I hope people remember this next time they want to interfere in the affairs of a private business.

Wrong.

The hedge fund that owns Safeway is cash strapped and selling valuable real estate parcels. The want Palisades residents to have to go the social Safeway or the ballet petite safeway instead of a replacement store.

I absolutely love that you called it the Ballet Petite Safeway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope they never close the Chevy Chase safeway. It may not be hip, but it's the right size. I can find what I need there and the parking is adequate.

I agree on the size, but man the selection there is terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Folks in Palisades like their "village in the city" and don't want it to become another Van Ness or Friendship Heights.

Villages should have a grocery store though.

Safeway wants you to drive to Georgetown and back the SUV up for a 15 bag order.

I don't think their mega-store in Georgetown has had quite the traffic Safeway anticipated when they built it, so closing smaller stores is one way to drive customers to it. It's strange how these large grocers, with their newer big box-fits-all models, don't quite get the city consumer. A lot of folks around here shop like little ol' European ladies, going (sometimes walking or jogging) to the grocery store more frequently for fresher food and smaller orders. They want to get in, get what they want and get out quickly and find the 60,000 or 70,000 sq ft exurb sized stores offputting for their purposes.

Not to mention in GEORGETOWN. There is no such thing as getting in and out quickly anywhere there. Wisconsin ave is a total disaster RIGHT THERE. Always has been.

Yeah - I'm not sure they realize how many of us in upper NW hate going anywhere near Georgetown.

If you like the Georgetown Safeway, then you'll love the Giant Giant. And the stretch of Wisconsin from the Cethedeal to Tenleytown is not much fun, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason they are leaving is because a bunch of jealous, geriatric ninnies were blocking Safeway from making logical redevelopment plans. Beating garbage cans, putting signs in yards. Totally sucks we will not have a grocery store now.

It's always the same bunch ranting + the bunch of imbecilic corpses on the ANC = no grocery store for the normal, busy families who have no time for this kind of stupidity.

I hope people remember this next time they want to interfere in the affairs of a private business.

Wrong.

The hedge fund that owns Safeway is cash strapped and selling valuable real estate parcels. The want Palisades residents to have to go the social Safeway or the ballet petite safeway instead of a replacement store.

I absolutely love that you called it the Ballet Petite Safeway.

I know it's been discussed to death but that Safeway, the SANGAMORE Safeway never has more than 2 registers open.

[Anonymous]

This is sad. And the NIMBYs in Palisades are getting exactly what they deserve.

[Anonymous]

I have never even been to that Sangamore Safeway. It's all about Arlington Road Safeway for me now. Social Safeway is too much of a nightmare to get to.

[Anonymous]

Wasn't there a massive sinkhole in that Safeway's parking lot?