Intelligence officials have been understandably coy about exactly which intelligence arms of the government will be operating out of the state-of-the-art site. The Defense Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Intelligence University have previously be confirmed as agencies to be represented on-site. Unconfirmed but rumored is the Central Intelligence Agency, whose headquarters is diagonally directly across the Potomac River from the ICC-B site, which is located on Sangamore Road, across from The Shops at Sumner Place.
Those poor workers will get stuck shopping at the decrepit Safeway there. I've been there a few times in the past few weeks, and they have run out of milk (!) on a Thursday afternoon. Also poor produce quality, and no self-checkouts so everyone is stuck waiting in the 2-3 lines that are open.
ReplyDeleteDid the shopping center own make some requirement that self check-outs aren't allowed? The CVS in the same mall doesn't have them either, and all other CVSes I visit nearby have them.
10:47: Yeah, why don't they demolish the other checkout lanes? They're never open.
Delete"Diagonally across the map from"
ReplyDeleteA more accurate description would be "across the river and due southwest of"
Sorry Robbie, your sorry arse will not be invited to sample the goodies, no Snowdenesk ghost allowed on this campus.
ReplyDeleteThis would be an incredible question to find out the answer to (self-check outs at the Safeway). Even the checkout clerks want them. I can't stand shopping there because of the lines ALL DAY LONG, yet it's so convenient!
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to the Little Falls Safeway but from the comment above it sounds a lot like the one on Old Georgetown Road. No self-checkout, at most two cashiers open even at peak hours. Crappy operations in general.
ReplyDeleteOne time I had to wait 15 minutes to pick up a prescription because the pharmacist decided to shop for his own groceries in the middle of his shift.
I just don't get it. Does Safeway even care? There are so many other options now -- Giant, TJ's, Harris Teeter, Whole Foods.. aren't they worried their sales are going to the competitors?
ReplyDeleteIf I was Safeway regional manager, I'd be making huge changes to compete with the other companies out there.
I asked Safeway about self checkouts. They said they removed them to "improve customer interaction".
ReplyDeleteHuh? How about opening more than 2 registers on weekday evenings? That would help improve interaction a whole lot better!