A Giant Food opened this morning on Alabama Ave. SE in Ward 8, making it the only full-service grocery store in the Anascostia ward. It’s also the first supermarket to operate in the neighborhood in over a decade.

On Saturday the Post ran a story highlighting the lengths Ward 8 residents have had to go to up until today to purchase groceries. The “Camp Simms” Giant joins a bank and a hardware in a shopping center that will eventually also include an IHOP and an ice cream parlor.

The store has only been open since 6 a.m. this morning and we haven’t been down to see it yet. But given Washington’s propensity for nicknaming grocery stores, we have to wonder what popular moniker this new Giant will receive. As the Post points out, a study last year by the D.C.-based Food Research and Action Center concluded that Ward 8 offered the city’s least nutritious food options, so maybe it should be called the Essential Giant.