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At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: fracturedfairfax ()
Date: October 18, 2014 05:19PM

Lotte international grocery will replace Safeway in Ravensworth Shopping Center
Ellie Ashford
October 18, 2014
http://annandaleva.blogspot.com/2014/10/lotte-international-grocery-will.html
The Safeway at the Ravensworth Shopping Center will close this winter and will be replaced with a Lotte Plaza international grocery store. That change is part of a project to renovate the shopping center outlined at a community meeting Oct. 16.


“We want to create a warm, more inviting environment,” said Don McIlvaine, the general manager of Ravensworth Properties LLC. Ravensworth Shopping Center is just outside the beltway at Braddock Road and Port Royal Road.


The Safeway isn’t being well-maintained, so it’s lease won’t be renewed when it expires Feb. 28, McIlvaine said. He tried to get Whole Foods to move into that spot, but that didn’t work out. He calls Lotte (pronounced low-tay) a great store that will meet the needs of the surrounding community and urged local residents to try some of the more unusual but delicious products sold there, such as Chinese bitter melons and aloe juice.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Meanwhile back in the real world ()
Date: October 18, 2014 05:47PM

>
> He tried to get Whole Foods to move into that spot,
> but that didn’t work out.


That's funny. I wonder if Whole Foods knew?

So in other words, Safeway has bailed on the lease for that crappy location where nobody goes because of the fucked up traffic layout and the best that they could do to replace it was a Korean chain.


Centreville%2BLotte%2BPlaza%2BMarket.jpg


Looks like there's one in Centreville too.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: NoVA Builders Association ()
Date: October 18, 2014 06:14PM

Looks like another place that needs a Town Center!

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: 496 ()
Date: October 18, 2014 06:17PM

Gookalicious

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: October 18, 2014 06:28PM

Their website is the worst ever....autoplay cheesy music, Korean and American voices playing at the same time. ugh


http://www.lotteplaza.com/

Blessed are the murderous.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: October 18, 2014 06:37PM

My understanding is that Safeway didn't bail on the lease, but they have been unwilling to upgrade the store. Probably makes sense considering they have a much larger location a couple of miles away in Annandale.

Lotte is a bit of a head scratcher. There are a couple of "international" grocery stores close by already.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: That sucks. ()
Date: October 18, 2014 07:22PM

Bill.N. Wrote:
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> My understanding is that Safeway didn't bail on
> the lease, but they have been unwilling to upgrade
> the store. Probably makes sense considering they
> have a much larger location a couple of miles away
> in Annandale.
>
> Lotte is a bit of a head scratcher. There are a
> couple of "international" grocery stores close by
> already.

That sucks. I like that Safeway because it's "normal sized" and I can get my grocery shopping done in 15 minutes, instead of spending forever in a huge store. And I HATE the Safeway in Annandale...it's possibly the worst managed store I've ever been in...always understaffed at the checkout lines, employees are rude and surly, and even though it's a bigger store they often run out of things on sale.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: live here ugh ()
Date: October 18, 2014 08:08PM

I lived in Ravensworth Farm for 9 years and now live in Canterberry Woods. I have always hated that Safeway. No bakery, no deli, only a small crappy butcher. Much of the food Ive bought there has been expired. I knew we had an Asian market coming in but Id hoped for an HMart. This Lotte looks dicey. Wonder how Swiss Bakery feels about this. Not sure the Asians go in for the pricey high quality bakery stuff.

I guess we can expect rats and seagulls now that there will be metric tons of fish guts and rotting produce out back. Also I guess you can expect to get your car dinged by all the late model minivans and work trucks that will be frequenting Lotte. Hope Im wrong but who cares the new Giant will be open soon up the road so the only time I will go to Ravensworth is for Swiss Bakery and to the excellent Golf store they have in that shopping center (it really is good).

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: teNXk ()
Date: October 18, 2014 08:15PM

Lotte's finest baked goods


Lotte's finest ImNotSureWhat



And of course Marinated Baby


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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Safeway Yourway ()
Date: October 18, 2014 09:23PM

That sucks. Wrote:
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> And I HATE the Safeway in
> Annandale...it's possibly the worst managed store
> I've ever been in...always understaffed at the
> checkout lines, employees are rude and surly, and
> even though it's a bigger store they often run out
> of things on sale.

Every time I'm there illegal women go to the self-checkout and then don't know how to work it and then no one is around to help them EVER and line becomes long fast, and just today it happened to 3 illegal women at once with no associate for over five minutes lol BUT having worked in Safeways merchandising, it's at least a nice one compared to others that are smaller, old and don't give a shit. All Safeways have some weird associates even if it's very functional.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: low tay ()
Date: October 18, 2014 10:26PM

I hope it is as attractive and as well maintained as the Lotte at Fairfax Circle.

For those who have never been there.... it's a dump. But good prices on veggies.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Frank Hannon ()
Date: October 18, 2014 11:36PM

eesh Wrote:
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> Their website is the worst ever....autoplay cheesy
> music, Korean and American voices playing at the
> same time. ugh
>
>
> http://www.lotteplaza.com/

They should use some American music on their site. There is a phenomenal musician from Richmond they should use. It would help them sell tea.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Good Riddance ()
Date: October 19, 2014 12:17AM

That Safeway is a dump. Good riddance to it and the lazy, overpaid union employees who infested it.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Red Apple ()
Date: October 19, 2014 12:26AM

Will the blacks protest it?

You know how they hate Korean grocery stores.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: kev ()
Date: October 21, 2014 12:37PM

WTF. What a stupid move. So they're spending $$$ to give the center a facelift, and pushing out some undesirable tennants, only to bring an asian supermarket in? Guy must think he's in downtown Annandale. When I think of strip malls with asian markets I do not think ".. a warm, more inviting environment,”

I guess the new Giant will have to get all my business once it opens.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Cancerous Union ()
Date: October 21, 2014 02:46PM

All the asshat union thugs at Safeway who helped foist Obama on a gullible nation should all be thrown out. This is at least a start. Good riddance, you traitors! Move to North Korea if you want a socialist workers' paradise.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Metamucil ()
Date: October 21, 2014 06:20PM

Cancerous Union Wrote:
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> All the asshat union thugs at Safeway who helped
> foist Obama on a gullible nation should all be
> thrown out. This is at least a start. Good
> riddance, you traitors! Move to North Korea if
> you want a socialist workers' paradise.


aaaaand you need to go to Safeway for more fiber. Sound pretty backed up there, buddy.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: local... ()
Date: October 21, 2014 08:48PM

Been going to that store over the years since I was a kid in the seventies buying wine and cigs for my mom, she would send me with a note so it was cool. Back in the day it was a great store, but has sucked worse every year since the late eighties or so. Back then CVS was a drug fair with a good lunch counter in the back. Had my first job there. Got my first and only "fired" there too! But that's for another thread... Gonna go put that one up now...

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Dead Fish Smell ()
Date: October 21, 2014 08:54PM

I went in one of those Lotte's. The smell of place almost made me sick!!!!

All sorts of fishy smells.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: old ()
Date: October 21, 2014 10:25PM

local... Wrote:
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> Been going to that store over the years since I
> was a kid in the seventies buying wine and cigs
> for my mom, she would send me with a note so it
> was cool. Back in the day it was a great store,
> but has sucked worse every year since the late
> eighties or so. Back then CVS was a drug fair with
> a good lunch counter in the back. Had my first job
> there. Got my first and only "fired" there too!
> But that's for another thread... Gonna go put that
> one up now...


CVS took over People's Drug. Rite Aid took over Drug Fair.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Sven Squarehead ()
Date: October 22, 2014 01:12AM

I'm all for this grocer overhaul. Ravensworth Safeway is/was raggedy as hell.

Is Lotte superior to Great Wall & H-Mart, or equally-yoked?

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Thay ()
Date: October 22, 2014 01:15AM


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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Fhfhfy ()
Date: October 22, 2014 01:37AM

Sven Squarehead Wrote:
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> I'm all for this grocer overhaul. Ravensworth
> Safeway is/was raggedy as hell.
>
> Is Lotte superior to Great Wall & H-Mart, or
> equally-yoked?


Tied with h-mart, though both are better than great wall.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: local... ()
Date: October 22, 2014 07:28AM

old Wrote:
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> local... Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Been going to that store over the years since I
> > was a kid in the seventies buying wine and cigs
> > for my mom, she would send me with a note so it
> > was cool. Back in the day it was a great store,
> > but has sucked worse every year since the late
> > eighties or so. Back then CVS was a drug fair
> with
> > a good lunch counter in the back. Had my first
> job
> > there. Got my first and only "fired" there too!
> > But that's for another thread... Gonna go put
> that
> > one up now...
>
>
> CVS took over People's Drug. Rite Aid took over
> Drug Fair.
*** Dang, yer right, must have damaged my long term memory too back then!***

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: edfe ()
Date: October 22, 2014 07:38AM

live here ugh Wrote:
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> I lived in Ravensworth Farm for 9 years and now
> live in Canterberry Woods. I have always hated
> that Safeway. No bakery, no deli, only a small
> crappy butcher. Much of the food Ive bought there
> has been expired. I knew we had an Asian market
> coming in but Id hoped for an HMart. This Lotte
> looks dicey. Wonder how Swiss Bakery feels about
> this. Not sure the Asians go in for the pricey
> high quality bakery stuff.
>
> I guess we can expect rats and seagulls now that
> there will be metric tons of fish guts and rotting
> produce out back. Also I guess you can expect to
> get your car dinged by all the late model minivans
> and work trucks that will be frequenting Lotte.
> Hope Im wrong but who cares the new Giant will be
> open soon up the road so the only time I will go
> to Ravensworth is for Swiss Bakery and to the
> excellent Golf store they have in that shopping
> center (it really is good).


There's an HMart not too far away on Heritage Drive.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: jungle boogie ()
Date: October 22, 2014 08:55AM

With all the foreigners in Fairfax co, it makes sense to put a store like that there. And there's another Safeway 2 miles west on Braddock if you don't like the Annandale one.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Rwoth Res ()
Date: October 22, 2014 07:22PM

One of the three brothers that owns the company was responsible for bringing the snakefish to the US, and is a convicted federal felon:

http://www.justice.gov/usao/cac/Pressroom/pr2005/016.html

Their west coast brand, Assi, has also used Gestapo-like strike breaking tactics and racist maneuvering against low paid Latino workers at the stores:

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter05/aas116/hw4dn.pdf

As for them being a high-end market, the health department doesn't think so:

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2007-08-10/news/0708100141_1_store-closed-food-packaging-lotte-plaza

I wonder if the developer/owner of the shopping center knows the PR situation he us getting himself into?

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: kev ()
Date: October 22, 2014 07:29PM

Favorite part of the Annandale Blog article:

"The Safeway isn’t being well-maintained, so its lease won’t be renewed when it expires Feb. 28, McIlvaine said"

So, just so I understand, you're updating your strip mall because, presumibly, it hasn't been well maintained EITHER. Has he stopped to think that maybe the Safeway owners didn't want to update the store was because of the less than stellar mall?

Crackhead logic to give the boot to a not so nice Safeway only to be replaced by a Lotte store.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: 6X ()
Date: October 22, 2014 08:03PM

Noooo
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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: 496 ()
Date: October 23, 2014 12:24PM

Think any Lotte shopping gooks will hit Kilroy's after shopping for fish heads and beetle nuts?

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: surgery ()
Date: October 23, 2014 12:46PM

Lotte's will make Safeway look like an operating room in terms of being clean. Those big asian stores are disgusting. Good for produce maybe but its Upton Sinclair time when it comes to meat fish etc. The grains all have infestations too so dont purchase ANY rice or other grains there.

Im sure the neighbors behind the store where the dumpsters are located are thrilled at the thought of tons of rotting fish marinating in their back yards. Wait for the parking too. Its always been pretty empty at the safeway but with the Asians its going to be packed with LOW income buyers and their junk cars. Honestly if I was Swiss Bakery or Kilroys Id be pretty pissed off at the owner for this tenant. It will bring nothing to the table for the other tenants and it will bring low-life no-speaks out in the thousands.

Smith and Clarkson Deli costumers wont be able to park either. That center is cursed...

pS thanks to the poster with the info on the scumbag ownership. Filthy stores, convicted of importing Snakeheads - those motherfuckers dont care about this country other than to take money.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: jjjjj ()
Date: October 23, 2014 01:10PM

Lol the hmart parking lots look a lot better than Safeway parking lots

I always notice nice Mercedes, Lexus, and bmw in Asian shopping lots.

And who is talking about work trucks, Asians are not Hispanics lol

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: YO YO YO ()
Date: October 23, 2014 01:58PM

live here ugh Wrote:
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> I lived in Ravensworth Farm for 9 years and now
> live in Canterberry Woods. I have always hated
> that Safeway. No bakery, no deli, only a small
> crappy butcher. Much of the food Ive bought there
> has been expired. I knew we had an Asian market
> coming in but Id hoped for an HMart. This Lotte
> looks dicey. Wonder how Swiss Bakery feels about
> this. Not sure the Asians go in for the pricey
> high quality bakery stuff.
>
> I guess we can expect rats and seagulls now that
> there will be metric tons of fish guts and rotting
> produce out back. Also I guess you can expect to
> get your car dinged by all the late model minivans
> and work trucks that will be frequenting Lotte.
> Hope Im wrong but who cares the new Giant will be
> open soon up the road so the only time I will go
> to Ravensworth is for Swiss Bakery and to the
> excellent Golf store they have in that shopping
> center (it really is good).


GET OUT MUCH? H-MART IS DOWN RAVENSWORTH OFF HERITAGE. THEIR ABOUT 1 MILE APART.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: No Matter What ()
Date: October 23, 2014 06:20PM

I've been to most of the Asian grocery stores in the area, and not one of them smelled as foul and disgusting as the Kilroys in that strip mall. The Asian stores stink, sure, but not like Kilroy's stench of old cigarettes, cum, puke, and urine.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: kev ()
Date: October 24, 2014 10:32AM

Guess you never walked by one of the fish/meat sections in the asian grocery stores.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: snakehead infestation meat ()
Date: November 03, 2014 08:43AM

YO YO YO Wrote:
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> live here ugh Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I lived in Ravensworth Farm for 9 years and now
> > live in Canterberry Woods. I have always hated
> > that Safeway. No bakery, no deli, only a small
> > crappy butcher. Much of the food Ive bought
> there
> > has been expired. I knew we had an Asian
> market
> > coming in but Id hoped for an HMart. This
> Lotte
> > looks dicey. Wonder how Swiss Bakery feels
> about
> > this. Not sure the Asians go in for the pricey
> > high quality bakery stuff.
> >
> > I guess we can expect rats and seagulls now
> that
> > there will be metric tons of fish guts and
> rotting
> > produce out back. Also I guess you can expect
> to
> > get your car dinged by all the late model
> minivans
> > and work trucks that will be frequenting Lotte.
>
> > Hope Im wrong but who cares the new Giant will
> be
> > open soon up the road so the only time I will
> go
> > to Ravensworth is for Swiss Bakery and to the
> > excellent Golf store they have in that shopping
> > center (it really is good).
>
>
> GET OUT MUCH? H-MART IS DOWN RAVENSWORTH OFF
> HERITAGE. THEIR ABOUT 1 MILE APART.

Actually 'Their' (lol) 2 miles apart. Believe me Im not going out of my way to an Asian supermarket - they are gross and the people are rude. So in all likely hood Ill just go to the Giant and sometimes to get produce at Lotte (or if they have snakehead infestation meat on sale)...

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: LotteReport ()
Date: November 13, 2014 07:22AM

I happened to be in Ashburn yesterday and decided to check out the Lotte there. My daughter could only stand 4 min before we had to leave. The stench of fish and curry were making her ill. The produce looked good but the fish stench was strong. Fish should NOT have a strong odor if fresh. Now they had a large volume and selection of fish but much of it had to be rotten based on the stink. I love fish but I wont buy from a counter that smells like rotten fish. It doesnt take much rotten fish and/or bad handling to contaminate the whole store.

Maybe the Asians and Latinos have stronger guts than mine but screw that. Im not eating rotten fish. The meats look equally suspect. So in summary; good looking produce, 50 lb rice bags stacked on the floor (weevils) isles and isles of spices packed in plastic wrap. We did find that they sell Kinder German chocolates at about half price.

The people were generally friendly but yes, people did park their carts smack dab in the middle of the isle.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Greybeard ()
Date: November 13, 2014 09:37PM

LotteReport Wrote:
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> The people were generally friendly but yes, people
> did park their carts smack dab in the middle of
> the isle.

"aisle".

But yes, that's a worse problem at these international markets than non-international markets. Not sure why; I'd've guessed that folks from more densely populated countries would be MORE aware of their surroundings, but this appears not to be the case. Yet when you move a cart that's blocking the aisle, you get a dirty look. Weird.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Trader Joes ()
Date: January 28, 2015 12:08PM

Not a fan of Whole Foods but it would be better than A no name Korean Market. A Wegmans would have been the best bet but at least we have Trader Joes just 2.5 miles south on the beltway

http://www.traderjoes.com/stores

The Safeway was scratched off my list long ago after my first visit there and the lack of "everything". Swiss Bakery is the only reason that plaza is still in business. Their rent should be cut in half.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: it will stay on your clothes ()
Date: January 28, 2015 12:12PM

Good Riddance Wrote:
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> That Safeway is a dump. Good riddance to it and
> the lazy, overpaid union employees who infested
> it.


And welcome to a store that smells like a fishing wharf in August

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Marketing 205 ()
Date: January 28, 2015 12:28PM

Trader Joes Wrote:
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> Not a fan of Whole Foods but it would be better
> than A no name Korean Market...


No big name grocery chain is going in that space these days. A supermarket in that location is a remnant of a past time. Not enough density and business volume to support what they want to see these days. Plenty of traffic but most is headed past it and there are others better located where they're headed. You get the people picking up a few things on their way home and some local business but you don't get the needed high volume of weekly bulk shoppers. Makes more sense for a smaller chain with a more targeted customer base that can pull them in.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: BikeCrunch ()
Date: January 28, 2015 12:36PM

I can't wait for some asian karate-mom in a minvan to start backing up over the WNC mopeds at Kilroys.

So sorry, joe.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: kulp ()
Date: January 28, 2015 07:08PM

I went into the HMart on Heritage Dr once out of curiosity.

It seemed that all the grunts (stockers, etc) were spics. All the cashiers were gooks. I guess it's smart to keep the spics away from the money.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Whelp ()
Date: January 28, 2015 07:41PM

kulp Wrote:
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> I went into the HMart on Heritage Dr once out of
> curiosity.
>
> It seemed that all the grunts (stockers, etc) were
> spics. All the cashiers were gooks. I guess it's
> smart to keep the spics away from the money.


Why is it you never see blacks working anywhere? Are they all too busy raping, robbing, killing, and collecting welfare payments to be bothered?

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Dane Bramage ()
Date: January 28, 2015 08:32PM

That area deserves a Shoppers.

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“We don’t have any rude, unpleasant people here. We’re different!”

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Sunoco ()
Date: January 28, 2015 09:28PM

The only downside to this is I liked being able to shop for a few normal grocery items while waiting for car inspection at the nearby Sunoco. I won't miss to overpaid, lazy employees there and their propensity to now put the sale ad prices in the registers. I've caught them overcharging most times I have been in there.

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Safeway
Posted by: DudeSeriously ()
Date: January 29, 2015 12:01AM

Giving it away !!
30% off everything this week at Ravensworth Safeway until Feb 7th.
Bargain City !!

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: It Does Suck ()
Date: January 29, 2015 05:46AM

That sucks. Wrote:
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>
> That sucks. I like that Safeway because it's
> "normal sized" and I can get my grocery shopping
> done in 15 minutes, instead of spending forever in
> a huge store. And I HATE the Safeway in
> Annandale...it's possibly the worst managed store
> I've ever been in...always understaffed at the
> checkout lines, employees are rude and surly, and
> even though it's a bigger store they often run out
> of things on sale.


I have to agree about the Safeway in Annandale. It's the closest grocery store to me and I almost never go there anymore. The checkout lines are always long due to our south-of-border friends. I do the majority of my shopping at Wegman's and Harris Teeter.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: This Is Why ()
Date: January 29, 2015 07:47AM

It Does Suck Wrote:
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> That sucks. Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
>
> >
> > That sucks. I like that Safeway because it's
> > "normal sized" and I can get my grocery
> shopping
> > done in 15 minutes, instead of spending forever
> in
> > a huge store. And I HATE the Safeway in
> > Annandale...it's possibly the worst managed
> store
> > I've ever been in...always understaffed at the
> > checkout lines, employees are rude and surly,
> and
> > even though it's a bigger store they often run
> out
> > of things on sale.
>
>
> I have to agree about the Safeway in Annandale.
> It's the closest grocery store to me and I almost
> never go there anymore. The checkout lines are
> always long due to our south-of-border friends. I
> do the majority of my shopping at Wegman's and
> Harris Teeter.

Any business infected with union thugs is guaranteed to be poorly run. Unions are parasites that eventually kill their host.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: tnnuP ()
Date: January 29, 2015 10:37AM

Sunoco Wrote:
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> The only downside to this is I liked being able to
> shop for a few normal grocery items while waiting
> for car inspection at the nearby Sunoco. I won't
> miss to overpaid, lazy employees there and their
> propensity to now put the sale ad prices in the
> registers. I've caught them overcharging most
> times I have been in there.


True. I do the same.

But just think - now we can get fresh octopus!

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Hondo ()
Date: January 29, 2015 10:48AM

Cancerous Union Wrote:
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> All the asshat union thugs at Safeway who helped
> foist Obama on a gullible nation should all be
> thrown out. This is at least a start. Good
> riddance, you traitors! Move to North Korea if
> you want a socialist workers' paradise.

Yeah, you can now go shopping at Giant instead and have the "union thugs" serve you there. You're an idiot.

As long-time residents will probably remember, when Giant was privately held and before it was sold to the multinational, it was a Union Shop, and the employees there were well paid, smart, good quality, customer-centric, and happy.

I sometimes wish that we could root out idiots like this poster (and a few others that post stupid junk on this site) and ship 'em over to Liberia - or perhaps to the middle east where they can all engage in some kind of massive patriotic shoot-out with ISIS.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Gregg Skorupski ()
Date: October 27, 2015 12:18PM

Do the people who submitted comments over the last four days know that the newly expanded Giant has been open for at least two months. Another spoke of a CVS replacing the Drug Fair. I guess I must have missed it when I passed the other drug store. Comment on the "union thugs"and multinational owner of Giant who be a wasted of time.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Gregg Skorupski ()
Date: October 27, 2015 12:26PM

CORRECTED TEXT AND ADDITIONAL COMMENT Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Gregg Skorupski ()
Date: October 27, 2015 12:18PM

Do the people who submitted comments over the last four days know that the newly expanded Giant has been open for at least two months. Another spoke of a CVS replacing the Drug Fair. I guess I must have missed it when I passed the other drug store. Comment on the "union thugs"and multinational owner of Giant would be a waste of time. Also, the Safeway isn't closing this winter--it has been closed for several months.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: PhoDungDuh ()
Date: October 27, 2015 12:41PM

All these Asians eat is Pho Dung Dog or Yow Meow Cat.....Lotte sucks.
ONLY SHOP at GIANT.....

But the Asians do rike Walmart.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Union Cancer ()
Date: October 28, 2015 07:58AM

Laughing at all the butthurt, unemployed union thugs who've lost jobs as they destroy the businesses that employed them. Silver lining for them - parasitic union thugs are more than happy to live on the dole collecting welfare.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: hIGH rISE ()
Date: October 28, 2015 07:46PM

That shopping center should be torn down and rebuilt.

It looks like some run down shopping center from the 1940's. I'm not surprised that shops drop like flys in that place. A town center idea would well there.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: lotte ()
Date: October 28, 2015 08:57PM

Lotte is filled with hot asian women. I'll be sure to shop there. The rest of you can stay away if you want.
Attachments:
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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: fantles ()
Date: October 28, 2015 09:13PM

Gregg Skorupski Wrote:
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> CORRECTED TEXT AND ADDITIONAL COMMENT Re: At
> Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long,
> Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
> Posted by: Gregg Skorupski ()
> Date: October 27, 2015 12:18PM
>
> Do the people who submitted comments over the last
> four days know that the newly expanded Giant has
> been open for at least two months. Another spoke
> of a CVS replacing the Drug Fair. I guess I must
> have missed it when I passed the other drug store.
> Comment on the "union thugs"and multinational
> owner of Giant would be a waste of time. Also, the
> Safeway isn't closing this winter--it has been
> closed for several months.


CVS replaced People's. Rite-Aid replaced Drug Fair. It was announced today that Walgreen's is buying Rite-Aid.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Fishy smell ()
Date: October 28, 2015 09:43PM

lotte Wrote:
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> Lotte is filled with hot asian women. I'll be sure
> to shop there. The rest of you can stay away if
> you want.

The last time I was in Lottes I had to leave because all the fishy seafood smell was making me sick.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: store front windows ()
Date: November 04, 2015 09:02AM

Looks like Lotte will open within 30-60 days the shelves are up ceiling in and its painted. The swim place is the stupidest idea I have seen in retail in a long time. Audrey moore is across the street with a beautiful pool. This little dinky pool is a joke. Bonus they left the store front windows clear so everyone in the world gets to ogle at you and your kids in swimsuits for as long as they want. I imagine the pedophiles will be taking long videos of all the young children getting lessons. Crazy. I wouldnt let my kid get lessons in that situation.

Golf shop moved to a smaller space (they rock by the way).

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Derp gone wild ()
Date: November 04, 2015 10:08AM

store front windows Wrote:
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Audrey moore is across the
> street with a beautiful pool. This little dinky
> pool is a joke. Bonus they left the store front
> windows clear so everyone in the world gets to
> ogle at you and your kids in swimsuits for as long
> as they want. I imagine the pedophiles will be
> taking long videos of all the young children
> getting lessons. Crazy. I wouldnt let my kid get
> lessons in that situation.


(Eye roll) You must be the same person worried about trans bathrooms.
1. Audrey Moore also already had clear windows since it opened in the 70's.
2. Why would a pedophile sit in front of store trying to film when they can go to 1,000's of pools and record in the summer.

You might wanna try going the Islam route and throw some sheets over your kids. Then they'll be safe from all the pedophiles running around.

Paranoid and stupid, what a combo!

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Kev ()
Date: November 23, 2015 09:18PM

Big news! Looks like theres a Woodcraft going in Ravensworth! Thats a woodworking store for those that don't play with wood.

The lotte looks nice on the inside. That should change after a month of being open and no cleaning.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Jh4eb ()
Date: November 23, 2015 09:28PM

hIGH rISE Wrote:
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> That shopping center should be torn down and
> rebuilt.
>
> It looks like some run down shopping center from
> the 1940's. I'm not surprised that shops drop
> like flys in that place. A town center idea would
> well there.

+1

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Derp ()
Date: November 23, 2015 09:36PM

Derp gone wild Wrote:
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> store front windows Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------

> 1. Audrey Moore also already had clear windows
> since it opened in the 70's.

FCPA installed a giant tarp so you can no longer view the pool from the main lobby.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Date: November 23, 2015 09:54PM

Is the 7-Eleven still here, and is it staying?

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Out of date ()
Date: November 24, 2015 07:26AM

The tarp at Audrey Moore was just there for maintenance work Derp. It is gone now.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Bic Boi ()
Date: November 24, 2015 11:25AM

For those of you who don't know, Annandale has the highest concentration of Koreans in the world outside of Korea.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Deepens gonna derp ()
Date: November 24, 2015 03:31PM

Bic Boi Wrote:
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> For those of you who don't know, Annandale has the
> highest concentration of Koreans in the world
> outside of Korea.

Bullshit, not even close.

Palisades Park, NJ

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Joke Insurance ()
Date: November 24, 2015 06:24PM

What they should have done with that area is re-route Port Royal Road towards the shopping centers entrance with Braddock Road. Then they could then tear down that office building. And build more development on that side.

I win, lol.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Taste A Quality ()
Date: November 29, 2015 09:20AM

Lotte is now stocking the shelves so Im assuming we are under 2 weeks from opening. They have put up the most absurd promotional posters outside "Fresh Seafood From the Ocean (with a picture of a fresh water rainbow trout); "Taste A Quality" - I would say from the fact they printed and posted absurd English translations they employ no one born in the US and likely dont even have their kids proof read copy. Typical of the Asian community - they only hire each other.

By the way be careful of the metal flashing on the support columns on the exterior near the parking lot. They cut the sheet metal so that it presents razor sharp surfaces (this is true at the whole shopping center). Drag your hand or child in your arm across that and you will be getting a dozen stitches or more.

I did not notice any fish stench as yet so likely they will install that last. Enjoy 3rd world sanitation and rice weevils

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Another Gut Buster ()
Date: November 29, 2015 11:51AM

>I did not notice any fish stench as yet so likely they will install that last

FXU Always the Best laughs! "Install" that last...LMAO !

DAJAX

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: November 29, 2015 12:23PM

Bic Boi Wrote:
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> For those of you who don't know, Annandale has the
> highest concentration of Koreans in the world
> outside of Korea.

Annandale doesn't have that large of a Korean population. It does have a high concentration of Korean businesses.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: little Hanoi ()
Date: November 29, 2015 12:28PM

Bic Boi Wrote:
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> For those of you who don't know, Annandale has the
> highest concentration of Koreans in the world
> outside of Korea.


A lot of Vietnamese there.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: horrible grammar/diction ()
Date: November 29, 2015 12:56PM

Why would they knowingly post horrible grammar/diction? I assume there is at least one employee in management that has a child educated in the English language. Why not run the copy past your 10 year old grandson to proof read? Instead they look and are ignorant. I suppose the bottom line is Korean businessmen simply dont care what English speaking people think of them. Probably that is it.

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Re: At Ravensworth Shopping Center, it's So Long, Safeway. Hello, Lotte!
Posted by: 'Taste A Quality' ()
Date: December 07, 2015 07:13AM

Looks like LOTTe is close to opening. They have completely crapified the front of the store/center with cheap posters and decals - looks like a cigarette market in Seoul

'Eat The Green' 'Taste A Quality'

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