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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Chevy Chase DC safeway cannot sell beer or wine. It is in their permit from the neighborhood. (Permit probably isn't the technical word, but they aren't allowed to sell it.) Go across the street to Magruders if you need that.

I've lived near that dreadful safeway since 2004 and it just keeps getting worse. The general neighbors complain, but the immediate neighbors don't want a huge store going in on that small footprint. I've gotten to the point that I only buy canned/bottled goods or packaged things like cereal or pasta there and only when I have no other option. Their garlic rots in days. (Ok, it's been a few years since I've bought it, but it doesn't look much better.) Their fruit isn't ripe or sweet tasting. I bought a particular cut of meat there one evening. When I went to put it in the crockpot the following morning, it had turned green. The staff is surly, with a few exceptions. And now they've made the aisles so narrow that they're going to have to make them one way!
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There is a weird quirk in DC's Alcohol Licensing where only one branch of a chain store can sell alcohol in the city.  So it has nothing to do with the neighborhood.[/quote]

I can buy beer at the Piney Branch Safeway and the Safeway in Georgetown (maybe others) so there must be some other reason that a one branch rule in DC's alcohol licensing.[/quote]

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