The latest in this story. Residents manage to negotiate significant concessions but Safeway gets its license. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-grocery-store-wanted-to-sell-beer-a-well-organized-neighborhood-made-its-best-attempt-to-stop-it/2017/09/27/b8cc4618-a38f-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html?utm_term=.78d7d095a5e0

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good old guilt by association.

No, it's guilt via war-profiteering and fear mongering. Just because a war profiteer wants to diversify his portfolio by buying a grocery chain doesn't mean we need to shop there.

Urban communities need to vote with their dollars and their best interests at heart. Rural interests don't care that we in cities must necessarily work together; we can't be "rugged individuals." Cities do better when you get guns off the streets; rural communities and gun capitalists don't care about our needs.

Maybe it would be more effective to get the people using the guns off the street? Perhaps it's not the tool that the criminals use so much as the criminals themselves but that's just crazy talk right?

I will agree that as someone who doesn't live in that area and would not travel or do business in that area I should have no say in how it's ran. but for some reason I find it hard to have sympathy for a group of people who keep voting the same caliber of people into office and expecting something to change.

How it's RUN, not 'ran'.

And prejudice much? Never been to the city ??? Don't realize that the vast majority of people in the cities aren't running around with guns? The majority of them are decent people working long hours at low wage jobs. They don't deserve to have their only food shopping option to be high priced ripoff convenience stores or a crappy moldy Safeway.

You should take a trip to the city and spend some time there . You should, specifically, take a shopping trip to that Safeway and please shut up until after said trip.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gray should move to shut all Safeway's in the District down, replacing them by local Korean owned corner stores. Help the little guy.

Didn't Marion Barry hate the 'dirty' Korean-American-owned stores?

I knew a family that owned one of those stores (and yes they were Korean) - they had a huge new mansion in Potomac and sent all the kids to private schools, full pay. Just from ripping off poor people at a convenience store in the city. You have to wonder how they kept their books.

Anonymous wrote:Safeway has crappy produce anyway.

Safeway has crappy everything these days. They are all gross. I've seen them trying to sell boxes of stuff that were clearly water damaged (think crackers, ice cream cones) - yuck. It's like shopping in a semi dry sewer.