Comments on: CityVista Safeway Unfurls Opening Date

By: Jaylin

Jaylin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:34:50 +0000

Safeway opening on Sept. 12 is old news from July! (plea: someone read my blog!)

Next tidbit: Results is not going to open on their announced date. The exterior looks good but the interior is far from done – a staff member estimated a month delay.

By: Freddie Mick

Freddie Mick — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:48:14 +0000

Publix! Publix! Publix!
Thanks, #41, & great description of Publix for those Yankees unfortunate enough never to have blissed out at a Publix. Sparkling clean stores, with friendly, helpful workers, & an awesome fruit & produce section, great seafood & meats & cheeses, wines & beers, fine deli, excellent [artisan] store-baked bread – & maaay Iiii sliiice that for youuu, sir?

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:48:38 +0000

Amen on having a Publix locate here — Safeway and Giant would be out of business in a week because all their customers would see that it is possible to have clean stores with good produce and meat selections with out going to a “speciality” grocer

By: LiveAndWorkinPQ

LiveAndWorkinPQ — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:51:46 +0000

Fantastic service at the Trader Joes in Foggy Bottom.

By: PQ Observer

PQ Observer — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:04:50 +0000

I get consistent good service at all Whole Foods and Harris Teeter locations. It’s a top-down thing. And, it usually reflects good treatment of employees. Adversarial relations between management and employees usually ends up in poor service to customers. My 2 cents.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:37:55 +0000

The thing about the service in DC is that it isn’t limited to any particular type of business. I’ve experienced just as many couldn’t-care-less grocery cashiers as I have couldn’t-be-arsed servers…smarmy hosts/hostesses, checked-out pharmacy clerks, etc. You’re going to get some of those no matter what city you’re in, of course…but the abundance of downright poor service I have experienced here is really something to behold.

By: Freddie Mick

Freddie Mick — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:16:20 +0000

Right on, # 36, since I agreed with # 29 on the appalling, truly appalling, service in DC, this weekend I shall visit the Harris Teeter on Capitol Hill. Hope it’s somewhere near as nice as the ones down South. Speakin’ of the South, what are the chances of a Piggly Wiggly located here? A Publix? We’re well below the Mason-Dixon Line!
signed, a northern boy

By: artisan resident

artisan resident — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:35:38 +0000

#29 – I disagree. Have you ever even gone to the Capitol Hill HT? you should try it…

By: pqresident

pqresident — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:16:51 +0000

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By: Si Kailian

Si Kailian — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:08:08 +0000

Safeway is hiring, they just put up a sandwich board.