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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The pike at glebe and east is improving and the home prices and performance of schools are showing the results.

West of glebe is a mess, still full of title stores, 7/11, check cashing, laundry mats and auto shops. There are a few gems, like pan american cafe, OMG their food is amazing.

Need to redo the food mart corner and the ones around 4 mile run to be more like penrise area. That will help a lot. Mix of local but successful stores and some good anchors, like a decent grocery store. It will still be surrounded by cheap apartment and subsidized housing, but it will get traffic from the higher income sFh as well.

Tired of going all the way to north arlington, shirlington or penrose for a gallon of milk.[/quote]

They sell milk at food star, you know.  Or do you refuse to shop among the browns because you want to encourage the right kind of development?[/quote]

The Food Star has higher prices than the Harris Teeter. Please take your racist remark elsewhere. [b]You are uninformed[/b].[/quote]

It's possible. I don't do the grocery shopping in my house, my spouse does, and he is there every week or more getting produce. When I drag him to HT he complains it's too expensive. That's my circumstantial evidence. What's yours? When was the last time you were there? Have you been more than once? What is more expensive? Because a lot of things are cheaper according to my dh.

As for racism, I am not the one avoiding food star or bailey's and choosing exclusively gentrified areas when I want a gallon of milk. That would be the pp. I don't disagree with their general point that the stretch of the pike between glebe and bailey's could improve, but I don't know why pp is complaining about having to go to the gentrified grocery stores to buy milk when it is available closer. [/quote]

I can't find it, but I believe it was in the post. They compared prices and the Food Star
Came out as the worst. Which, was also my experience living in a predominately Dominican neighborhood is NYC. You think because the store looks relatively unkempt and a bit dirty- you might be getting some savings somewhere. It's not the case. The Food Star has a captive customer base of lower SES people that need to walk to a grocery because of transportation. 
As for the last time I was over there - a couple of months ago. It's the closest grocery to me. If I need something in a pinch and don't mind s few extra pennies, it's worth it.
Maybe your DH is an awesome bargin hunter/ coupon clipper and knows the secrets of the Food star.[/quote]

hmm, the only recent mention of food star in the Post I could find was from this article:

Two reporters tested perceptions about Arlington in grocery stores in both parts of the county, a Harris Teeter on Lee Highway and the Food Star on Columbia Pike. Both were crowded on a weekday afternoon, both carried plantains (at 79 cents a pound, they were a dime cheaper at Harris Teeter). 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-arlington-unsettling-questions-about-divisions-between-the-haves-and-have-nots/2014/11/23/3b647434-71a6-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html

seems a bit flimsy. [/quote]

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