April 18, 2008
Beer and Wine at Target?
Just when people thought the Target in Columbia Heights had everything, there's talk of it getting even more.
ANC 1A vice chair Anne Theisen sent a message to the Columbia Heights Yahoo listserve saying Target has applied for a license to sell beer and wine. That application, as well as Rumbero's application for a sidewalk cafe on 14th Street, will be discussed next Tuesday at the ANC 1A meeting. Most of the responses on the list (myself included) have come out in favor of both applications.
Is there anyone who actually thinks beer and wine at Target would be a bad thing, except for maybe the folks who run the Giant? Sure, there are plenty of other places to buy beer and wine in the neighborhood, but we can't see anything wrong with potentially cheaper potent potables in a heavily commercial strip. It's hard to see anyone putting up much of a fuss over this particular liquor license, though we're curious to get out a measuring stick and see if the 400 ft.-rule might actually apply to either nearby Bell Multicultural High School or Lincoln Middle School. It would likely depend on where the city decided to measure from, the edge of the DCUSA property, or the entrance to the Target on 14th Street. The ANC 1A meeting will be held on Tuesday at the GALA Hispanic Theatre.
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Is there anyone who actually thinks beer and wine at Target would be a bad thing?
Gee, I dunno. Maybe a couple thousand churchies who live in P.G. County and double park every Sunday maybe?
I'll call the police.
(Shouldn't you call the church?)
Call the church police!
All right. (shouting) The Church Police!
(sirens racing up, followed by a tremendous crash, the church police burst in the door)
What's all this then, Amen!
If this happens, it will pretty much cement my decision to move back to the CH/Mt. P area.
Most of the NoVa Target stores I've been to have Beer/Wine
1: 'ere, is that...rat tart?
2: yes.
1: ......disgusting.
that's because it's legal for just about anyone to sell beer & wine in va. except for maybe the abc.
Great news! Nobody will object except for the usual blowhards with time on their hands on the CH Yahoo listserv.
Now I can buy Video Games....beer...shoes...BBQ wings.......oh my...in one spot. Land-o-gushin!
capitalism at its finest...more better cheaper i suppose
My biggest gripe is that D.C. law of not being able to buy beer or wine after ten. How dry I am sometimes after ten. I don't drive and I don't want to go to a westeraunt.
The DC Target is the nastiest Target I've ever been too. They don't need beer and wine to make it even nastier.
Is it really that nasty? I haven't been there, but I did go to the Best Buy and found it very clean and the sales staff to be disturbingly nice.
stone, you must not get out much
D'Vines is open across the street from Target. They are a locally grown wine/beer store with their first shop down at 18th and U St. They have a super knowledgeable staff on both fine wine and craft/import beers. I doubt Target's selling cheap Bud light will effect them too much, but I would hate to see a Walmart-effect squash local business.
My biggest gripe is that D.C. law of not being able to buy beer or wine after ten.
Amen to that. One thing I miss from living in California for most of my life is the ability to buy booze from 6 a.m. to 3 a.m. This also made my high school job as a bag boy at Safeway amusing from the occasional customer who would walk/stumble in at 6:05 a.m. to pick up a tallboy of Miller High Life or Country Club.
Will Target let me drink while shopping? I could get behind that.
Ok, but will they sell loosies?
Sorry....I'm not a Target hater by any means, but I went to the new DC for the first time and found yogurt tins spilled all over the grocery section, shoes scattered all over the floor in the shoe section, clothes scattered on the floor, and the shelves basically half empty. I want to support this Target, but had to end up going to Maryland to get any decent shopping done.
Target needs to get its sh*t in order before it starts expanding.
As a regular drinker, I'm actually pretty cool to the idea of Target getting a liquor license. I simply don't feel that alcohol is so expensive as to warrant the entry of a discount seller into our local community. I also really would like to see places like D'Vines succeed. I'd really prefer they expand their grocery section with a produce aisle.
I didn't think D'vines had actually gotten its act together quite yet to open?
I've been to target 4 times since it's opened- I love it. BUT, maybe un necessarily, I'm worried about a few things: 1st- It was really well stocked when it opened (duh), but the shelves are a bit thinner now. That bugs me. Second (and on topic for this thread) the reason I love target is that it carries the 1.5 million things I couldn't easily buy in DC until it opened. Seriously, beer and wine were not two of those. Yeah, yeah, call me silly, but I just don't know that it's in my interest that any of their hallowed shelf-space go to products that I can find on just about any other corner in DC.