The Market Report

MOM's Organic Market Opened: 2006, expanded 2019 Owner:  Scott Nash Previous Tenants:  unknown Location:  7351 Assateague Dr, Jessup, MD Photographed:  June 2021 Contributor:  Luke P. Welcome to Baltimore, almost! We're about 12 miles southwest of the city in Jessup to visit the MOM's Organic Market at Columbia East Marketplace. We've seen a few of their stores, and toured the Cherry Hill location . This looks like a fairly large MOM's store, especially since the website mentions it was expanded in 2019. By the way, here's what the outside looks like. As we saw in Cherry Hill, the store is extremely spacious with wide concourses between all the aisles. Above, I believe we're looking across the back wall of the store, and in the first shot we're looking towards the back from the front of the store. Looks like the expansion also involved replacing most of the fixtures around the store, since they all look pretty new. MOM's, of course, gained its popu...

Giant Food Opened: ca. 2012 Previous Tenants:  none Location:  300 H St NE, Washington, DC Photographed:  June 2019 Contributor:  Alex D. Our contributor Alex D., who lived for a while in this neighborhood of Washington DC, shows us a few pictures of what was her local store when she was here. The store is located right behind Washington DC's Union Station, and about 3/4 of a mile northeast of the Capitol Building. With this small look inside, we see that it's a rather unremarkable version of this decor package, which would've been installed when the store opened around 2012. The store may have been renovated with the newer decor package I mentioned at Seven Corners , but I can't tell for sure. Looks like a nice polished concrete floor but this is a pretty flat version of the decor with a very bland ceiling. Well, that wraps up our rather short look at the DC area and tomorrow we have an even shorter look at the Baltimore area, with one store outside of the city her...

Safeway Opened: 2015 on site of demolished Safeway Location:  3526 King St, Alexandria, VA Photographed:  February 2021 Contributor:  L.D. We arrive in Alexandria, VA, for our final suburban DC store. This 62,000 square foot Safeway was constructed around 2013-2015 on the site of a demolished former Safeway, and when the new store opened, it took up about twice the footprint of the former store. This is an interesting location in that it's on the second floor, with a parking garage underneath, and immediately next door to a Fresh Market. We have two more stores before we move along to our next group, and our second-to-last tomorrow is right in the center of things in urban DC. Come back to take a look inside!

Todos Supermarket Owner: Kevin Yun Opened:  2020 Cooperative:  none Location:  5521 Leesburg Pk, Bailey's Crossroads, VA Photographed:  December 2021 Contributor:  L. D. This local chain of international supermarkets made its home in the roughly 40,000 square foot former location of Toys R Us in early 2020. The store was announced in 2019, and sparked a fair amount of controversy -- much of it centering on what type of supermarket, exactly, Food Star is. See the comments here . I don't see many or any TRU remnants inside, nor do I see any secondhand items from other stores. It's a fairly generic , but plenty attractive, interior. This is unfortunately our single independent store in the DC area, and tomorrow we see our final DC suburb store over on The Market Report !

Giant Food Opened: 2020 Previous Tenants:  Shoppers Food (closed 2019) Location:  6360 Seven Corners Ctr, Falls Church, VA Photographed:  February 2021 Contributor:  L.D. The Giant Food at Seven Corners in Falls Church is the largest DC area we've seen so far, at over 70,000 square feet. It was a Shoppers Food until 2019, and Giant appears to have opened in 2020. It's a very attractive interior , too, designed by our friends at Off the Wall. Tomorrow we'll be heading to another interesting retail reuse, over on The Independent Edition !

Harris Teeter Opened: 2016 Location:  301 W Broad St, Falls Church, VA Photographed:  February 2021 Contributor:  L.D. Another DC area Harris Teeter (which is where I visited my very first Harris Teeter, way way back around 2010), this one in the ground floor of a new(-ish) development in downtown Falls Church. The development was constructed in 2015-16 with the Harris Teeter opening at the end of that period. Very hard to tell exactly how large this store is, since I can't get a good sense of the footprint from the air. But it might be somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 square feet. Tomorrow we're going to head about two miles southeast, within Falls Church, to check out the big chain in the DC area that we haven't seen yet. Come back on Monday to check it out!

Harris Teeter Opened: unknown Location:  2500 N Harrison St, Yorktown, Arlington, VA Photographed:  February 2021 Contributor:  L.D. Right across the street from yesterday's Safeway is this Harris Teeter, which looks like a mid-00s new build store. It's just slightly smaller than Safeway, at around 37,000 square feet. We unfortunately don't have any photos of the interior, but if you're curious, you can check out our store tour of the Harris Teeter in Mount Pleasant, SC here (looks like they have the same decor package). Well, we had two Safeways in a row and now we have two Harris Teeters in a row, with our store tomorrow over in Falls Church. Come back to check it out!

Safeway Opened: unknown Location:  2500 N Harrison St, Yorktown, Arlington, VA Photographed:  February 2021 Contributor:  L.D. From one Safeway to another, we move on to the store at Yorktown in Arlington, VA. This is a much newer store than yesterday's renovated Marina , and my gut tells me this roughly 40,000 square foot store was probably built in the 1990s. It's also directly across the street from a Harris Teeter, which we'll take a look at tomorrow!

Safeway Opened:  ca. 1960s Location:  6244 Old Dominion Dr, McLean, VA Photographed:  February 2021 Contributor:  L.D. A very cool store that we're taking a look at today! The Safeway at the Chesterbrook Shopping Center dates back to the Marina days of the 1950s/60s with an original 11,000 square foot Marina building. Today, it's been expanded out to 36,000 square feet but its Marina essence remains. It looks like a very attractive redesign of an original Marina store -- and I'm very glad they've left the bones visible instead of covering them all up! Here's what the store looked like prior to its remodel. It also looks like the wooden ceiling beams are visible inside. Certainly a place I'd like to visit if I were ever in the area myself. Tomorrow, we have another Safeway just to the southeast. Come back to check it out!

Balducci's Food Lover's Market Opened: unknown Location:  6655 Old Dominion Dr, McLean, VA Photographed:  February 2021 Contributor:  L.D. Welcome to our first DC area store! This is the first of several posts from pictures sent in by a contributor. This 14,000 square foot Balducci's, in the northwestern DC suburb of McLean, may have previously been another chain supermarket, and I couldn't find an opening date for Balducci's either. This was one of the Balducci's acquired by Albertsons Mid-Atlantic in January 2021, when parent KB US Holdings went bankrupt. KB, of course, was just an LLC from a foreign investment firm to hold Kings and Balducci's. We've covered plenty of the Kings up in NJ (and NY/CT), but not too many Balducci's -- just Scarsdale and Westport . There are 8 Balducci's in total. Tomorrow we're going to see another Albertsons-owned store in town here on The Market Report!

  We are continuing our northbound trek from Charleston, South Carolina to [redacted], Maine (ooh, did I leak confidential future plans??) by making a few stops in the DC and Baltimore areas! Now I must admit that it's been quite some time since I was last in these areas myself, and I don't have a lot of grocery stores photographed in this region myself. So this group is interesting in that it's entirely made up of contributor-submitted posts! In fact, the bulk of the pictures in the DC suburbs that we'll start with come to us courtesy of, um, my former roommate's girlfriend's best friend's cousin. No, I'm not exaggerating. We'll be spending a few days in the western and southern suburbs of Washington DC, moving from west to east passing through McLean, Arlington, Falls Church, Bailey's Crossroads, and Alexandria, VA, , then making a single stop in DC itself, before jumping up to a southwestern suburb of Baltimore. And then we're on to Pennsy...

We are continuing our northbound trek from Charleston, South Carolina to [redacted], Maine (ooh, did I leak confidential future plans??) by making a few stops in the DC and Baltimore areas! Now I must admit that it's been quite some time since I was last in these areas myself, and I don't have a lot of grocery stores photographed in this region myself. So this group is interesting in that it's entirely made up of contributor-submitted posts! In fact, the bulk of the pictures in the DC suburbs that we'll start with come to us courtesy of, um, my former roommate's girlfriend's best friend's cousin. No, I'm not exaggerating. We'll be spending a few days in the western and southern suburbs of Washington DC, moving from west to east passing through McLean, Arlington, Falls Church, Bailey's Crossroads, and Alexandria, VA, , then making a single stop in DC itself, before jumping up to a southwestern suburb of Baltimore. And then we're on to Pennsylv...