Tuesday, December 06, 2016

New Bethesda Intelligence Community Campus to get Dunkin' Donuts

America's next generation of spies will run on Dunkin'. A source tellls me the nearly-completed "Intelligence Community Campus - Bethesda" is going to get a Dunkin' Donuts shop. It will be open from 6:00 AM - 4:00 PM on weekdays.

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.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

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.

Did 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.

Anonymous said...

"Diagonally across the map from"

A more accurate description would be "across the river and due southwest of"

Anonymous said...

Sorry Robbie, your sorry arse will not be invited to sample the goodies, no Snowdenesk ghost allowed on this campus.

Robert Dyer said...

10:47: Yeah, why don't they demolish the other checkout lanes? They're never open.

Anonymous said...

This 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!

Anonymous said...

I 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.

One 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.

Anonymous said...

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?

If I was Safeway regional manager, I'd be making huge changes to compete with the other companies out there.

Anonymous said...

I asked Safeway about self checkouts. They said they removed them to "improve customer interaction".

Huh? How about opening more than 2 registers on weekday evenings? That would help improve interaction a whole lot better!