Hi! I don't know if this is true but was told that the Fairfax Harris Teeter on Main Street is closing or is closed? This can't be happening! Can anyone verify this ? Thanks.

Dunno.

Yep. It's already closed.

We all know why they closed, WEGMANS.
I am supprised Food Lion off 29 in FRFX is still in business.

That shopping center sucks.
They should level the whole thing and make 236 a straight road.
Its too fucking twisted going west on it.

Eh Wrote:
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> We all know why they closed, WEGMANS.
> I am supprised Food Lion off 29 in FRFX is still
> in business.
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> That shopping center sucks.
> They should level the whole thing and make 236 a
> straight road.
> Its too fucking twisted going west on it.

wegmans? is there even one in the area? i was thinking that everything costing way less at Shopper's or even Giant which are just a mile down the road would the cause of their demise. it's not that shopping center that fucks up traffic but rather the "oh sooooo precious historical builds. old town fairfax and it's smug elitists should be burned down to the ground.

edit: fixed the italics tag. -ben


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."



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Some of us are smug elitists who feel right at home in old town fairfax. Just don't go there if you don't like it... hang around in the hood behind food lion in chantilly if that makesyou feel better.

pgens, you syuck. Go feel at home in your traffic infested shittown, be careful not to fall in one of the manholes.

Gravis? You just asked if there was a wegmans "even in the area"? Was that a deliberately stupid question? We've only discussed it 50 million times here.

ive know there is a wegman's but i would hardly call it in the area. i was refering to within minutes (like walking distance) of where the harris teeter was.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

Point taken, but who would rather walk to a place and be gouged (I shopped at that place once and spent twice what i would have for the same shit at any other store).

Wegmans kicks ass. It is a just and righteous God's answer to the loathesome Super Wal-Mart.

The problem with Harris Teeter is there are only so many people out there willing to pay higher prices to keep Wegmans, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Harris Teeter in business. Wegmans has "buzz," and I think Whole Foods and Trader Joe's have better name recognition and a more loyal customer base than Harris Teeter's.

Harris Teeter fills no (necessary) niche, all of those other places fill some kind of niche that people actually want.

They're going to build another one in the area, probably in a year or so. I was talking to a guy that worked at the Fairfax one and they are being booted off the property for unknown reasons. Supposedly a little bit of a legal issue between Harris Teeter and the land-owners, but they're gone nonetheless.

According to an article a few weeks ago in the Connection, the Harris Teeter store was too small and they need a location with about 50% more square footage to be competitive. This was one of the smallest stores in the chain and stores of similar size were in less populated areas. While I had been a pretty loyal HT shopper, I now do about 85% of my grocery shopping at Wegmans. This when I live near Burke Center and have two Giants and a Safeway within 5-10 minutes.

I liked the ability to get in and out of HT quickly, but the layout left something to be desired. Plus, the parking lot was terrible. I may be spending more at Wegmans, but we eat just about everything that we buy since they make meal planning a lot easier. The big question is what happens to the huge vacant space in the center of Fairfax City. Harris Teeter was expected to be an anchor tenant in the redevelopment effort.

I wouldn't feel special about skipping past giant and safeway to shop at Wegmans. Except for the folks right near wegmans, anyone in the area does the same thing when they shop there. Giant is everywhere and yet they all suck... inconsistent stock and angry employees.

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food shopper Wrote:
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I think we figured that out in 2006 dumbass.