In today's mail was a postcard for an online survey about putting a supermarket at the intersection of Springvale Rd and Leesburg Pike. With the current supermarkets being unable to maintain adequate stock, how does this apparent "newcomer" expect to survive let alone compete?

SMH...

Great falls needs to diversify like the rest of Fairfax country. We need to put another ‘world market’ type place there that is filthy inside and out, with a tacky storefront. Ever been in one? Smells like a polluted river. So repulsive.

What’s the address if the location? Name of the new grocer?

We all now understand that a supermarket is an essential business.

Someone probably identified this location as a grocery desert area, and want to ease the hassle and save time of nearby residents who probably drive a long ways to get to a supermarket.

Your panties sure are in a twist today... let the market decide, unhung tripod.
Besides, Route 7 at Springvale isn't Great Falls, not even close. The proposed site is halfway between Vienna and Reston. Great Falls has only one supermarket and that is Safeway. It could use some competition.

Went to A&P and Grand Union this morning. No paper towels or toilet paper at either one.

Pedro de paco Wrote:
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> Great falls needs to diversify like the rest of
> Fairfax country. We need to put another ‘world
> market’ type place there that is filthy inside
> and out, with a tacky storefront. Ever been in
> one? Smells like a polluted river. So repulsive.

But they are the only ones that have food right now, hahahaaaa!!!
And the vegetables are better than the coughed on ones at Wegmans.

FYI Letts' Sanitary Grocery has plenty of blackstrap molasses and oil lanterns, and I scored a roll of Scott's at Magruder's

Great Falls? Let them eat cake.

The entire downtown Great Falls area is going to be re-developed like the Reston Town Center with high-res buildings and a four-lane highway.

The Safeway is very old and should be replaced.

Great Falls veteran Wrote:
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> The Safeway is very old and should be replaced

I have my chauffeur, James, drive the Bentley Mulsanne to the Giant at North Point Village instead.

Great Falls Resident Wrote:
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> Great Falls veteran Wrote:
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> > The Safeway is very old and should be replaced
>
> I have my chauffeur, James, drive the Bentley
> Mulsanne to the Giant at North Point Village
> instead.


Peasant, my chauffeur also named James drives me in my Bentley to Whole Foods in Tyson’s.

Mulligan Stew Wrote:
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> Went to A&P and Grand Union this morning. No
> paper towels or toilet paper at either one.

You should've tried Acme or Food Fair...

Idiots.
People who can afford to live in Great Falls with a chauffeur and Bentley don’t do their own grocery shopping.

Mulligan Stew Wrote:
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> Went to A&P and Grand Union this morning. No
> paper towels or toilet paper at either one.


You must be an old man to pull those out. Lmao.

tacotruck Wrote:
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> Pedro de paco Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Great falls needs to diversify like the rest of
> > Fairfax country. We need to put another
> ‘world
> > market’ type place there that is filthy
> inside
> > and out, with a tacky storefront. Ever been in
> > one? Smells like a polluted river. So
> repulsive.
>


> But they are the only ones that have food right
> now, hahahaaaa!!!



You actually eat from that nasty place?

They deserve to have third world shit hole dwellers living there. Diversity is great. Right Great falls people, right?

RyanB Wrote:
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> Idiots.
> People who can afford to live in Great Falls with
> a chauffeur and Bentley don’t do their own
> grocery shopping.


You are incorrect sir. I have to supervise James at the store or he will
buy the wrong items.

Idiots.
James drives the housekeeper to the store. She does the grocery shopping because she’s the one cooking the food.

Drug Fair and People's Drug have cleaning supplies! And metal lunchboxes and flash cubes.

RyanB Wrote:
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> Idiots.
> James drives the housekeeper to the store. She
> does the grocery shopping because she’s the one
> cooking the food.


Wrong again. Our housekeeper Helga, is in charge of cleaning the house, but Pierre our French chef does the cooking.

Bet it's going to be a Harris Teeter based on, y'know, all the rich neighborhoods having one.

It's not all fun and games in Great Falls. Sure, if we like our neighbors enough or have enough land we can shoot and stuff, but in terms of the day-to-day, here are some downsides of which you may not be aware without living there:

* We all joke about "The Great Falls Tax" - compare prices of pretty much any normal stuff and see if they aren't almost always cheaper in McLean, Reston, Herndon, or Sterling.

* Some people seem to be helpless paranoiacs. The "suspicious person" reports on Nextdoor (We call it Nextdog - because most of the content is lost dog announcements) would be amusing, until you realize that the Police may get called to hassle someone who's just a little weird.

* The one grocery store (Safeway) can't turn stock over fast enough to avoid having expired stuff in practically every department. I mean any packaged thing you might pick up, from Kool-Aid to vitamins. I get that it's the buyer's responsibility to look at stuff before they buy it, but in pretty much ANY other grocery store around here, they get enough traffic that I'm not pulling expired products off the shelf on every single trip.
(Personally, I'm hoping the toilet paper panic provided a chance for the stock at the Safeway to turn over. It would be glorious to not be buying year-old stuff.)

* There are now TWO CVS stores, for reasons that completely escape me. Hopefully the new CVS pharmacy may be nicer than either the Safeway or CVS next door to each other in Great Falls. The Safeway pharmacist is so surly, I punted and now go to nice people in Reston, despite having 2 pharmacies literally 5 minutes from my house.

* We have some restaurants, but with a few notable exceptions, they tend to suck.
- The sushi place just merged with the lackluster Chinese place. That should be fun to watch, but culturally and financially.
- The Mexican restaurant changes management with the phase of the moon.
- Was stoked to find an OK BBQ place, but service takes forever and I saw some anecdotal food poisoning reports.
- delivery people may NEVER be able to find your house
(I pretty much won't use Uber Eats out of sympathy for the drivers. If you're not out there with aviation marshalling wands like they use for parking jets, and talking them in like ATC and a lost pilot, they won't find half the houses.)

*Our regular main roads flood every time it rains. They're also winding and actually require attention to driving, so people unfamiliar with them are knocking out our power or FiOS every couple of weeks when they plow into utility poles.

That's the reason to have a high-end car with good handling out here. Between people speeding around S turns in shitboxes with bald tires and the everpresent oblivious soccer moms (and dads) you need at least a sports sedan to dodge the people aggressively trying to kill themselves around you, for those rare moments when you're not also dodging the attacking wildlife.

*Oh, yeah, the animals... Yes, it's kind of cool to see foxes, possums, raccoons, and it used to be cool to see deer. Now, herds of deer now stand in my yard as I'm getting out of my car to go into the house, glare at me, and seem to want to know what business I have there. Sometimes they just stand still in the middle of the drive that leads to the house and stare at me, daring me to run them over.

EVERY OTHER DAMN CREATURE HAS RABIES. Probably some of the deer too, but the deer travel in gangs and always want to stare me down now, so I take the L when I meet them and go around them.

We've got rabid foxes biting elderly ladies in the leg. My next door neighbor has shot at least one. (Rabid fox, not elderly lady, but I never asked him about those.)

We also have people taking pictures of BEARS in their damn front yards.

You may not want to live in Great Falls if you don't know how to shoot. You might have to.

(Don't get me started about Fairfax County Animal Control - The Animal Control Officers are great, but the last time I tried to call for their help, the dispatcher wouldn't connect me to them until I threatened to shoot an endangered species in front of my house in order to humanely deal with an injured animal.)

you only need to find a retail chain that likes working for food stamp money and doesn't mind government controlled profit and lawsuits

GOOD LUCK