Hope you feel better , The Aldi in Branywine is a hole .Giant was suppose to build there but pulled out at the last min and left everyone high and dry everyone else who you would want went across the street .
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Hope you feel better , The Aldi in Branywine is a hole .Giant was suppose to build there but pulled out at the last min and left everyone high and dry everyone else who you would want went across the street .
Tito
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SoMdDude
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The original was at the corner of glebe rd and Columbia pike, tucked back in the corner of the strip mall. The 2nd location was on Beauregard and King St in Alexandria across from TGI Fridays
zar
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Leonardtown shopping center is packed all the time, minus the business they are losing to people driving out to cali. You seem angry, do you own mobile or something? Wawa would drive them and their over priced gas and dry crusty pizza out of business in 2 seconds. A chipotle opening where the Rustic River use to be would put a stop to the revolving door of failing businesses in that spot. Most of the failure is due to poor quality, not lack of consumers.
Yup. Sign says opens today. THAT was fast.
But St John's Pharmacy was a seriously small store. I'd like to see how they're going to fit all that much CVS into such a small space, unless they have plans to increase the store space.
I was told that CVS has purchased the land next door where Helping Hands used to be and was burned down and may build a larger store.
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Why do anything about it if you're still buying their product? The only way businesses change is when people stop buying a product. But the good news is it sounds like you're getting a Dunkin Donuts in LTown, so that creates a new option to force their hand.
By the way, I'm seeing a bunch of comments in here about how Whole Foods or whoever else is considering locations in Waldorf. You're not reading Disney's blog (the foundation for this thread, BTW) that says don't hold your breath: http://shashoconsulting.blogspot.com/2015/01/lets-clear-up-some-misinformation.html
While I appreciate the up dates some of the explanations just don't fly,Wegmans, Whole Foods ,Trade Joe's all have more than efficient distribution to handle a store in Waldorf .Whole foods has a distro center in Landover many others use third party suppliers so that is not a reason ,some just don't want to compete with a Super Walmart ,as you remember it was going to be in LaPlata ,now maybe Waldorf .
I thought about that - I purposely drove by that way this morning on the way to work to see if that would work. There's enough room, and it's a good location.
But while I can see that, seems strange to buy an existing pharmacy, build a new building NEXT to it - and then, what, tear down the old one?
We're kind of used to using Giant anyway as our main pharmacy, so we probably won't switch, even though they're practically next door.
Saint John's has been my pharmacy for countless years. No idea what will be done with the old building. There was a story in The County Times on March 26th.
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mitzi
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Sad to see it go!
Me too. I guess Tidewater will be next. Sad to see the smaller, independent pharmacies go.
mitzi
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I don't buy it anymore. I took the chance last week and got the cappachino, only because I was with someone and that's where they stopped.
I think southern Maryland is getting the same kind of snub PG got for decades. Specifically, being counted out for high end retail. Since that's now changed in PG, they have National Harbor, Wegman's, and several Whole Foods I hope it changes for SMD. There is certainly a market for that kind of product. If nothing else, it's definitely a blue ocean market.
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You're going to drown in that "blue ocean" one of these days.
The reasons why retailers avoided Prince George's were/are very different than why SoMD doesn't have some of them. Add the population of the 3 Counties together and you might have 1/3 of PG's numbers. Then look at where those stores are located, in the highest population and wealthiest area of that County and next to the same in Montgomery County. That's your reason for here.
National Harbor is a non-factor right now and maybe forever. They certainly aren't appealing to the area where it's located but instead to NoVA. That's been stated over and over by the developers, the businesses and County officials.