Palisades: Safeway is closing

[Anonymous]

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

From WW I era munitions buried there maybe??

[Anonymous]

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

Why do you say that when Safeway has been acquired and its new strategy seems to be to close and consolidate smaller stores into large box stroes designed to serve a wider geographical area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Why do you say that when Safeway has been acquired and its new strategy seems to be to close and consolidate smaller stores into large box stroes designed to serve a wider geographical area?

That's just a rationalization by the people who drove Safeway out of Palisades. Every piece of evidence shows that until they received widespread opposition for the terrible crime of wanting to build a nice grocery store with nice condos on top of it, Safeway wanted to stay in Palisades. Do you think the thousands of dollars they spent developing that plan was just some kind of a ruse so that NIMBYs, not Safeway, would be blamed when they were driven out?

Sorry NIMBYs, this one is on you and your mindless and stupid opposition to any change, no matter how beneficial it may be for the community at large.

[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.

Isn't this one they called the Soviet Safeway? Long lines and little choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Isn't this one they called the Soviet Safeway? Long lines and little choice.

No. You're thirty years behind the times or more. The Soviet Safeway originally was the Georgetown Safety until it new store was built in 1980 or so. (The current big box replaced the 1980 store). Then the honorific passed to a small Safeway east of Dupont Circle.

The Chevy Chase Safetway is perfectly adequate. I'm sure the last thing neighbors want to see is for it to be torn down and rebuilt into some generic copy of Clarandon or Cathedral Commons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Isn't this one they called the Soviet Safeway? Long lines and little choice.

No. You're thirty years behind the times or more. The Soviet Safeway originally was the Georgetown Safety until it new store was built in 1980 or so. (The current big box replaced the 1980 store). Then the honorific passed to a small Safeway east of Dupont Circle.

The Chevy Chase Safetway is perfectly adequate. I'm sure the last thing neighbors want to see is for it to be torn down and rebuilt into some generic copy of Clarandon or Cathedral Commons.

Yeah, no. Now, I have my fingers crossed that this will go too. There has been plenty of chatter on the listserv about how terrible and how wonderful it is. The last time I went a few years ago an octogenarian warned me about buying bread there as hers had been infested.

Why do you, and the NIMBYs, think the only two choices are letting things fall to ruin and chain stores?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Why do you say that when Safeway has been acquired and its new strategy seems to be to close and consolidate smaller stores into large box stroes designed to serve a wider geographical area?

That's just a rationalization by the people who drove Safeway out of Palisades. Every piece of evidence shows that until they received widespread opposition for the terrible crime of wanting to build a nice grocery store with nice condos on top of it, Safeway wanted to stay in Palisades. Do you think the thousands of dollars they spent developing that plan was just some kind of a ruse so that NIMBYs, not Safeway, would be blamed when they were driven out?

Sorry NIMBYs, this one is on you and your mindless and stupid opposition to any change, no matter how beneficial it may be for the community at large.

Wow. If what you say is true, Safeway must be managed by real wimps. I suppose they were forced to sell to GDS in Tenley because of NIMBYs and now they're on the run in Palisades!

[Anonymous]

That Chevy Chase Safeway is like the Tenley one. Bad but ok if you have no choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Isn't this one they called the Soviet Safeway? Long lines and little choice.

No. You're thirty years behind the times or more. The Soviet Safeway originally was the Georgetown Safety until it new store was built in 1980 or so. (The current big box replaced the 1980 store). Then the honorific passed to a small Safeway east of Dupont Circle.

The Chevy Chase Safetway is perfectly adequate. I'm sure the last thing neighbors want to see is for it to be torn down and rebuilt into some generic copy of Clarandon or Cathedral Commons.

Yeah, no. Now, I have my fingers crossed that this will go too. There has been plenty of chatter on the listserv about how terrible and how wonderful it is. The last time I went a few years ago an octogenarian warned me about buying bread there as hers had been infested.

Why do you, and the NIMBYs, think the only two choices are letting things fall to ruin and chain stores?

So you are praying the Chevy Chase Safetway closes? Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That Chevy Chase Safeway is like the Tenley one. Bad but ok if you have no choice.

How large and shiny a store is has little to do with how it's managed. Take the Marina Safeway in San Francisco, an almost iconic, widely known store that is in a 1950s building. Think anyone will ever view the McLean Gardens Giant Giant that way?

[Anonymous]

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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.

I'm sorry you are a relatively lower income renter. We old people kinda hold the cards for the moment, and the property. Not to worry, some day you too will get older and you might at that point own an expensive house that you don't want to see diminished in value.

Um, hardly. I recently purchased one of the nicer houses in the neighborhood. None of the affluent families care about condos over a new and improved Safeway. It is hippy-ish weirdos still living in 1960's leading the charge.

Um I bet you're internet bluffing. People who spend $4 million on one of the nicer houses in Kent or overlooking the potomac actually don't care for one single second about whether their ability to buy processed food and cat litter has been hindered. The house manager does that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Isn't this one they called the Soviet Safeway? Long lines and little choice.

No. You're thirty years behind the times or more. The Soviet Safeway originally was the Georgetown Safety until it new store was built in 1980 or so. (The current big box replaced the 1980 store). Then the honorific passed to a small Safeway east of Dupont Circle.

The Chevy Chase Safetway is perfectly adequate. I'm sure the last thing neighbors want to see is for it to be torn down and rebuilt into some generic copy of Clarandon or Cathedral Commons.

Yeah, no. Now, I have my fingers crossed that this will go too. There has been plenty of chatter on the listserv about how terrible and how wonderful it is. The last time I went a few years ago an octogenarian warned me about buying bread there as hers had been infested.

Why do you, and the NIMBYs, think the only two choices are letting things fall to ruin and chain stores?

So you are praying the Chevy Chase Safetway closes? Why?

Because the NIMBYs will fight it being renovated, which it needs badly. They're up in arms about personal property. And, it is ironic that if they'd approved a renovation that they'd have a grocery store and they're going to end up with no grocery or something worse than what they were fighting.

I don't shop there along with many friends and people on the listserv. I'd love for a Trader Joe's to go in, but if there is a no grocery clause it doesn't matter to me because there are two WFs, one Giant, and one TJ close by. If they put in a restaurant or other shops, I'm more likely to use that space.

[Anonymous]

pp here, but in response to above, even renovating the management would be a start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I'm sorry you are a relatively lower income renter. We old people kinda hold the cards for the moment, and the property. Not to worry, some day you too will get older and you might at that point own an expensive house that you don't want to see diminished in value.

Um, hardly. I recently purchased one of the nicer houses in the neighborhood. None of the affluent families care about condos over a new and improved Safeway. It is hippy-ish weirdos still living in 1960's leading the charge.

Um I bet you're internet bluffing. People who spend $4 million on one of the nicer houses in Kent or overlooking the potomac actually don't care for one single second about whether their ability to buy processed food and cat litter has been hindered. The house manager does that.

I think your beef is with Safeway. They're the ones who are closing smaller stores to push customers to their overbuilt super-centers. Then they want to market with the Macarthur property with a restrictive covenant against any lease to a grocery store.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That Chevy Chase Safeway is like the Tenley one. Bad but ok if you have no choice.

How large and shiny a store is has little to do with how it's managed. Take the Marina Safeway in San Francisco, an almost iconic, widely known store that is in a 1950s building. Think anyone will ever view the McLean Gardens Giant Giant that way?

I don't care about shiny or icon status. I just want there to be things I need and a decent selection. And enough cashiers!