DCist: Grocery Politics

cjl1978

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:38:46 -0500

The Southwest Waterfront Safeway is remarkable for its ridiculous lines. As such, it is definitely known as the Safewait.

HCE

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:53:12 -0500

I live next to the Safeway on Columbia in Adams Morgan. The name of it is "Salsa Safeway" not "Spanish Safeway." You know your there because they have a Virgin Mary aisle (I'm not kidding). Also, I always called the Capitol Hill one the "Un-Safeway"

ohthehugemanatee

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:28:40 -0500

ohthehugemanatee

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:27:19 -0500

I live next to the Safeway on Columbia in Adams Morgan. The name of it is "Salsa Safeway" not "Spanish Safeway." You know your there because they have a Virgin Mary aisle (I'm not kidding).

ohthehugemanatee

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:21:04 -0500

I live next to the Safeway on Columbia in Adams Morgan. The name of it is "Salsa Safeway" not "Spanish Safeway." You know your there because they have a Virgin Mary aisle (I'm not kidding).

paradoxx

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:11:55 -0500

I live in Eastern Wyoming/Western Nebraska, the Safeway in Scottsbluff Nebraska is the Platte Valley Safeway. The big S itself is on the northwestern part of the building (which is beige) and is the rounded rectangle of the 90's but the sign-light itself is round from the early 80's. The inside is a weird hodge-podge of eras, the floor has been patch worked and repaired only when it is needed, and the back room remains unfinished (no drywall which means that the heating costs are more than necessary). The wall-paneling is more of the 90's retrofit than the millennium lifestyle format, but it works out well, after all they need to finish that back room before they change anything out front. The pharmacy is number one across the rockies and great plains, but that is because the feng-shui indicates that the furtherest corner from visual eyesight controls the situation within, and the pharmacy is the furtherest from the entrance to the sale floor, but the dairy has the furthers corner(s) from the entrance doors. Oh, and Nebraska has policy as to how liquor can be sold in a grocery store, namely separate from the rest of the beverages, so the liquor area is separate and under its own wall-panel. But what this Safeway actually is, it's the "Haunted Safeway," early in the morning (around 3 am and usually during active moon phases) you can see fuzzy images moving in from of the soda machines and walking in and out of the building, sometimes things will fall off the shelves for no reason whatsoever.

allyblah

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:29:10 -0500

My friends and I call the Capitol Hill (Potomac Metro) Safeway the Scary Safeway. I always feel like I'll get shot in the parking lot (not to mention some of the side streets), day or night. I have slipped up and called it the Soviet Safeway a few times, and it might be a better name--I used to live near the 17th St one and, really, I've never seen more empty shelves than at the Capitol Hill one. Go in there on a Sunday night and, literally, half of the food is wiped out, particularly anything on sale.

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Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:59:50 -0500

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Vera Kochring

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:43:05 -0500

Isn't the Capitol Hill Safeway known as the "Shoot-'em-Up Safeway?"

LIRC

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:32:26 -0500

When I was living in DC, we called the capitol hill safeway the "unsafeway" as at the time, it was steps away from some seriously troubled projects and smack dab in the outdoor crack market. Though, it did have the only in-store liqour store. I almost miss the UnGiant on Macomb.. I swear they only stocked expired products- it was like a bad food museum/adventure park

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Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:50:03 -0500

The map of Safeways and the discussion certainly shows that the upper NW is the cyber-connected community. Even NW stalwarts like the Giant at 7th between P & O Streets fails to get a shout out. Hell there are parts of DC that still don't have any grocery store. Who knows, class warfare over fresh produce might actually happen one day.

John

Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:35:13 -0500

Where's the love for SW and the Safeway in the (hopefully soon to be demolished) Waterside Mall? Have also heard of this one referred to as the UnSafeway, but I think the Slothful Safeway is a more accurate description. Going there any evening between 4-8PM means lines stretching halfway to the back of the store to the two or three open registers. It's why the Pentagon Row Shopper's is a common weekend destination for SWesters...

Matt

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 17:19:55 -0500

Also, there's the Safeway on (I think) Kentucky Avenue on the fringes of Capitol Hill. No snarky name for it from me, since I actually liked that one when I lived over there, mostly because of its attached liquor store. Though I always found it weird that you had to pay for your booze at the liquor store register and not at the main registers.

Matt

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 17:11:22 -0500

What about the Grim Giant on 14th and Meridian in Columbia Heights (soon to be replaced by the new Giant across the street in the renovated Tivoli complex, which will supposedly be the largest Giant in DC)? The list of things wrong with this Giant is almost comical: At most three registers open at all times (out of only six or so available registers), lazy and/or inept help, incredibly tight aisles and, worst of all IMHO, NO DELI!

DentalFloss_Tycoon

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 16:06:52 -0500

We should encourage Max Vilimpoc (who created the great Safeway map) to include all the Safeways in the Washington D.C. Diamond. My input: Rosslyn Safeway- Sloped/sloping Safeway because it's on a hill. The Tenleytown/Friendship Heights Safeway as the Suburban Safeway (although you can drive right bye it without noticing it, which makes it secret right?) -------- Other locations in NW (Sorry NE folks. boring area although I'm sure there's a dive bar there) SAFEWAY 1747 Columbia Rd NW Washington DC 20009 1855 Wisconsin Ave NW Washington DC 20007 4203 Davenport St NW Washington DC 20016 1800 20TH St. Nw Washington Dist. of Columbia 20036 3830 Georgia Ave NW Washington DC 20011 1701 Corcoran St NW Washington DC 20009 5545 Connecticut Ave NW Washington DC 20015 4865 Macarthur Blvd NW Washington DC 20007

mgrass

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:27:12 -0500

Well The Irish Times and the Dubliner (west of North Capitol Street) are technically in NW ... but we agree, there is stuff in NE ... and we do intend on covering more of it. DCist particularly enjoys Col. Brooks' Tavern in Brookland.

Kanishka

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:58:53 -0500

NE DC has Catholic U, the vast majority of Capitol Hill, Lincoln Park, Stanton Park, Lounge 201, Union Station (one of DC's most beautiful buildings), Kelly's Irish Times, the Dubliner... its really not so bad. Oh, and parking is easy, and rent is cheap. Sure, parts of it are a little run down--but thats part of the fun.

mgrass

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:36:04 -0500

We've heard that in the 70s, the UnSafeway was called the Saigon Safeway for obvious Vietnam-era safety concerns. Can anyone confirm that?

nm

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:29:05 -0500

everyone always forgets about the safeway on connecticut ave. near chevy chase circle. technically, it's still in d.c., not maryland. sticking with the alliteration, i like to call it the suburban safeway, because it's the nicest, best-stocked of the safeways/giants in d.c.

Rod

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:21:22 -0500

I live across the street from the so-called Soviet Giant, but my nickname for it is the Not-So-Giant. Indeed, while it is about the same size as the Soviet Safeway on 17th St, it's selection is awful and the layout enfuriating. But the worst part about it is the self-important clientele, for whom waiting in line is such a burden.

Amos Rambone

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:17:06 -0500

Er, right. Because between the Home Depot, the anthrax post office, the bus station, and the trash transfer station there are so many reasons for NW'ers (or any other DC residents for that matter) to head NE. I can think of things to do in SE and SW, but NE? It's DC's red-headed step child.

Kanishka

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:34:43 -0500

Great to see the NW DC crowd continually ignoring their more humble NE compatriots. What about the Safeway in the former Hechinger Plaza, at the corner of Bladensburg, Benning, and Maryland NE? We call it the UnSafeway, especially after someone _crashed_a_car_ through the front of it earlier this year. There's also the Giant Giant, AKA the Booze Giant, next to the Rhode Island Ave. Metro stop. Using your bonus card gets you discounts on Miller High Life. And there's another Safeway on Capitol Hill, I believe near the Potomac Ave. metro. I can't give it a euphemism because I've never been there, but I've never heard good things. Its a shame that so many think DC is just NW DC.