Fire! And: a return
In a quick hit on relevant, up-to-date news, Sushi Jin had a fire last night that pretty much decimated their food supply, closed them down temporarily, and even hit some local businesses with carryover outages. Willow Street Yoga announced that their Silver Spring studio would be closed tonight due to some clean up and repair because of the fire.
Courtesy of The Google – Sushi Jin in less-fiery times.
Silver Spring Patch reports that no one was injured and the cause of the fire is still under investigation. When I first heard there was a fire on the block, I assumed that it was one of two things: (A) Someone set American Apparel on fire; or (2) Quiznos got out of hand with the toasted sub thing. Neither of those have turned out to be true.
As you may have noticed…
The holiday season took its toll on putting much time into the blog. Hoping to get things fired back up with more news from Silver Spring that’s fit to print. For Thayer Avenue residents, that includes talking about gems like this:
This makes sense, as our beloved Safeway provides a respite for homeless people, poorly-stocked shelves, and mediocre store-brand dairy products. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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I guess since no one was injured, we can be a little lighthearted about this incident. So is Sushi Jin gonna be doing a deal for seared tuna, salmon, etc?? C’mon, when you’re served lemons…
Blogging more than once every two months is for suckers.
So I don’t get the anger directed at Safeway. I shop Farmers’ Markets on the weekends and fill in with chain-store groceries as needed. Safeway produce beats WholeFoods’ and Giant’s hands-down.Their computers monitor sales so they stock what people buy. Sure, you can’t go to these stores for artisan-made fancy foods. Why not approach management about it instead of complaining online?
Homeless people hanging around? So what?
And I rarely find the store poorly stocked unless it’s late.
I always find the store poorly stocked. Just last week I went to buy eggs and it was bone dry. I went there at noon to buy shrimp and the fish department wasn’t even open or stocked. Cheese slices were on sale last week and none were to be found.
I have complained to management. I’ve told them I don’t know if I can continue shopping there when chances of getting what I came for get keeps getting more difficult.
I wish I was exaggerating, but I am not.
And there is no way the produce at Safeway is better than Whole Foods. Produce at Whole Foods blows away anything Safeway stocks.
“Safeway produce beats WholeFoods’ and Giant’s hands-down.”
Sorry, but the quality of Safeway produce falls well below that of Whole Foods. It’s brown by the time you get it home.
And if it’s not brown by the time you get it home, it will be the next day. That’s our last-ditch stop for mostly non-perishable goods and never any produce.
And for the record, Giant’s not much better. We’ve started doing all of our shopping online with Harris Teeter in Rockville. Just put in the order and you can drive up, ring a bell, and they bring it out to you. No more Safeway, and only the occasional trip to Whole Paycheck.
If Whole Foods started a Peapod-like service I’d never go to the supermarket again.
Oh, and one amazing thing I recently saw at Whole Foods: $28 for a half-pound of coffee beans.
I have seen drivers of large trucks struggling mightily back into the parking garage at Safeway, and I suspect that is the largest part of their problem. Looks like it is more than a 1-person operation, someone needs to stop traffic and also assist the driver with direction. The same seems true of the 7-11 further up Fenton. That Safeway also seems to have a lot of elderly shoppers. If more staff members were available to assist them in shopping, that would help.
Businesses as well as governments have been under relentless pressure to cut, cut, cut, especially cutting the $ going toward paying staff. It is just part of the macro trend toward massive inequality in the USA and elsewhere.