There are only three full-service grocery stores in wards 7 and 8 east of the Anacostia River, though that number may soon be growing with recently announced development plans.

A disaster zone, basically.

A former congressional staffer is opening a new grocery store specializing in regionally sourced foods in the location of the former “Secret Safeway.”

The H Street NE corridor will be getting its first new supermarket in many years with the imminent opening of a Giant Food store. And it needs help with spelling.

Shoppers at a Kroger supermarket in Charlottesville got a bit of a scare yesterday evening when a 22-year-old man walked into the store toting a loaded AR-15 rifle.

The Yes! Organic Market in the Fairlawn neighborhood in Southeast D.C. has announced it will close, despite a $900,000 city grant given in 2010 to encourage it to open at that location.

Mayor Vince Gray and a delegation of D.C. officials just returned from a retailers convention in Las Vegas, where they’ve gone to woo big-name national chains to set up shop in the city. What came of this year’s effort? More hope that Wegmans might finally break the suburban barrier and open in D.C.

A decade-long battle over a Giant supermarket near the National Cathedral has finally come to an end.

The Washington Business Journal reports that another Wegmans supermarket is coming to the area, but the force field around our fair city that has kept the grocer beyond the Beltway stubbornly remains in place.

After a few false starts, it’s finally official — we just received a press release from Ellwood Thompson’s CEO Ryan Youngman, who said a deal was signed at about 2 p.m. today for a location in the DC USA shopping center. The release says the supermarket, which has one branch in Richmond, will open on Irving Street NW in Columbia Heights in fall or winter of 2009. The store will focus on products found within…