Wegmans and Walmart coming to Tysons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

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New Englanders, are you from MA? Do you know Roche Bros.? It puts Wegmans to shame. Roche's is "still" family owned, and they don't have unnecessary crap in the store. It is only slightly more expensive, but actually justified.

You get what you pay for there! (Unlike Whole Foods/Whole Paycheck, for example}. I think it started in Wellesley, which is a gorgeous, uber rich {old money, truly} college and more town. A town that doesn't accept sub par anything. Very different than what others are used to and accept as status quo (sadly).

Very familiar! LOVE. MarketBasket put in a new shop right after the Sagamore Bridge and is quite a cost savings.

And let's not forget Building 19...

[Anonymous]

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New Englanders, are you from MA? Do you know Roche Bros.? It puts Wegmans to shame. Roche's is "still" family owned, and they don't have unnecessary crap in the store. It is only slightly more expensive, but actually justified.

You get what you pay for there! (Unlike Whole Foods/Whole Paycheck, for example}. I think it started in Wellesley, which is a gorgeous, uber rich {old money, truly} college and more town. A town that doesn't accept sub par anything. Very different than what others are used to and accept as status quo (sadly).

Wegmans is better.

[Anonymous]

sneak preview

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1275328.html

[Anonymous]

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I grew up in upstate NY with a wegmans right down the road. Been missing it ever since I left and once a month I justify driving the 40 min to the Woodmore store. Haha! For me, there's nothing else around here that beats it as an all-around grocery store (I shop at Trader joes a lot, but can't get everything there). You Tyson's folks are lucky and I wish they'd open one in Silver Spring!

I grew up in Upstate New York and don't miss Wegman's at all. I sometimes shop there when I visit my parents, but it's not a thrill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Cleveland Park and make a Tyson's Corner trip about once every two months. I'll definitely plan to do other shopping at Tyson's and then go to Wegmans for a big grocery trip. Good produce, wide-range of fresh bulk products, and great prices on staples. I'm Wegmans is coming our way, though I do wish there were one in DC.

Seriously? I don't understand this. Even if I wished to buy things in bulk, there are closer suburbs in which one might do this.

I might go there about once every two years, and it's usually because we know some people in Virginia-ish professions who might be visiting from out of town, feel more comfortable out there than in the District, and wish to meet up.

I thought there already was a Wegman's out there. Maybe in Reston? That's kind of the same thing, as far as it matters from here. Not something that's worth a special trip. And whether or not we want them (I don't), it seems we'll be getting Walmarts in town, even in the Mt. Vernon Square area. Shameful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wegmans non-impressed folks, what *would* impress you?

So I guess Columbia Heights (home of Target) is just another exurb? Or the Costco in Pentagon City ... makes it like unto Ashburn?

I don't know anything about the Target in Columbia Heights but yes the whole shopping center with the Costco in Pentagon City feels like you stepped into the exurbs. I hate it and never go there.

Pentagon City is an ugly concrete jungle.

I find it more of an ugly concrete desert than a jungle. They're trying to redevelop some spots, it seems, but you'll notice the sidewalks are mostly empty! These empty, narrow sidewalks running alongside fast-moving traffic are the reason Arlington isn't properly urban.

That said, I am a bit familiar with the Costco area and think exurbs are clearly something different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Cleveland Park and make a Tyson's Corner trip about once every two months. I'll definitely plan to do other shopping at Tyson's and then go to Wegmans for a big grocery trip. Good produce, wide-range of fresh bulk products, and great prices on staples. I'm Wegmans is coming our way, though I do wish there were one in DC.

Seriously? I don't understand this. Even if I wished to buy things in bulk, there are closer suburbs in which one might do this.

I might go there about once every two years, and it's usually because we know some people in Virginia-ish professions who might be visiting from out of town, feel more comfortable out there than in the District, and wish to meet up.

I thought there already was a Wegman's out there. Maybe in Reston? That's kind of the same thing, as far as it matters from here. Not something that's worth a special trip. And whether or not we want them (I don't), it seems we'll be getting Walmarts in town, even in the Mt. Vernon Square area. Shameful.

You are truly an idiot , reston and Tysons are completely different places , it's like saying all of dc is nice and clean like the monuments and museum areas.
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[Anonymous]

The wegmans is in Fairfax fairlakes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Cleveland Park and make a Tyson's Corner trip about once every two months. I'll definitely plan to do other shopping at Tyson's and then go to Wegmans for a big grocery trip. Good produce, wide-range of fresh bulk products, and great prices on staples. I'm Wegmans is coming our way, though I do wish there were one in DC.

Seriously? I don't understand this. Even if I wished to buy things in bulk, there are closer suburbs in which one might do this.

I might go there about once every two years, and it's usually because we know some people in Virginia-ish professions who might be visiting from out of town, feel more comfortable out there than in the District, and wish to meet up.

I thought there already was a Wegman's out there. Maybe in Reston? That's kind of the same thing, as far as it matters from here. Not something that's worth a special trip. And whether or not we want them (I don't), it seems we'll be getting Walmarts in town, even in the Mt. Vernon Square area. Shameful.

You are truly an idiot , reston and Tysons are completely different places , it's like saying all of dc is nice and clean like the monuments and museum areas.
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Shrugs. You get into a car and emerge a looong time later. Maybe you're alighting in a parking lot outside an inside mall, maybe you're alighting in a parking lot in front of a strip mall. But they're basically both in the same area in relation to the District: out THAT way. One's just a bit farther in the same direction than the other.

[Anonymous]

DC walmarts lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC walmarts lol

They're really getting forced down our throats, at least the two NW stores coming. I think it's a shame about the one on Georgia Ave., but then, they've had trouble filling space with diverse retail offerings and can probably make arguments about anchors. But the store coming to... I want to say NoMa? That's a crying shame for a neighborhood with so much potential. The design for the physical store is pretty good-- not a parking-in-front exurban big box, but the association with the Walmart company is all wrong.

[Anonymous]

Wegmans - cool!, but not worth fighting the Tysons traffic to get there.

Walmart - gross, but who really shops there anyway?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wegmans - cool!, but not worth fighting the Tysons traffic to get there.

Walmart - gross, but who really shops there anyway?!

Metro

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wegmans - cool!, but not worth fighting the Tysons traffic to get there.

Walmart - gross, but who really shops there anyway?!

Metro

to go to a grocery store?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Cleveland Park and make a Tyson's Corner trip about once every two months. I'll definitely plan to do other shopping at Tyson's and then go to Wegmans for a big grocery trip. Good produce, wide-range of fresh bulk products, and great prices on staples. I'm Wegmans is coming our way, though I do wish there were one in DC.

Seriously? I don't understand this. Even if I wished to buy things in bulk, there are closer suburbs in which one might do this.

I might go there about once every two years, and it's usually because we know some people in Virginia-ish professions who might be visiting from out of town, feel more comfortable out there than in the District, and wish to meet up.

I thought there already was a Wegman's out there. Maybe in Reston? That's kind of the same thing, as far as it matters from here. Not something that's worth a special trip. And whether or not we want them (I don't), it seems we'll be getting Walmarts in town, even in the Mt. Vernon Square area. Shameful.

You are truly an idiot , reston and Tysons are completely different places , it's like saying all of dc is nice and clean like the monuments and museum areas.
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Shrugs. You get into a car and emerge a looong time later. Maybe you're alighting in a parking lot outside an inside mall, maybe you're alighting in a parking lot in front of a strip mall. But they're basically both in the same area in relation to the District: out THAT way. One's just a bit farther in the same direction than the other.

I'm the PP from Cleveland Park you quoted. I find Tyson's much more convenient for most shopping than other options. I do kids' and my shoes often at Nordstrom; kids clothes and gear at Nordstrom, LL Bean, and Hanna Andersson; business clothes for me at Sacks, Nieman's, Bloomingdales or Nordstrom; nonperishables at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods with easy parking, plus random housewares out that direction. I think people just have different locales where they get into their habits, and Tyson's is, for me, by far the quickest and easiest place to get things done. I cross Chain Bridge and head out that way. Doesn't take too long at all. To each her own.