Whenever I stopped in, I was usually the only person in the store; it didn't seem like mall patrons were clamoring for expensive jeans. The location was also infamously robbed by a gang, who assaulted an employee during the lucrative $12000 heist (and - frankly - probably set a record for most people in the store at one time).
Meanwhile, popular bubble tea chain Kung Fu Tea will soon karate-chop its way into the Dining Terrace at the mall. The company is expanding this year, after hugely-successful openings in Rockville and downtown Silver Spring. They also will open a new location in Germantown.
Looks like you saw that the store was closed, sometime over the weekend. Are you delaying your stories just so that you can meet your daily quota of two articles?
ReplyDelete"Whenever I stopped in, I was usually the only person in the store"
Did you buy anything when you were there?
Looks like this is the 23rd shop or restaurant to close at Montgomery Mall year-to-date.
Did you get invited to the Purple Line groundbreaking, Robert?
ReplyDelete5:27: You're nominated for ultimate moron, old sport. I discovered the store was closed last evening. Why would I immediately post a report when traffic is low on a Sunday night? You obviously know nothing about news or publishing, so it would be smart to just keep quiet.
ReplyDelete5:58: Yes.
So you use print media tactics as a groundbreaking up to the minute news site?
Delete"You're nominated for ultimate moron, old sport."
ReplyDeleteFirst, that use of passive voice is weird, as if you're suggesting that anyone but you is doing the "nomination". And second, I can't picture Jay Gatsby ever saying that. LOL
"[I]t would be smart to just keep quiet."
That sounds like a threat. I am calling the MoCo Machine Police.
"ultimate moron." This is how you talk to people just because you can't stand them? You are so rude. You have no potential to be anything but a grumpy frumpy blogger.
ReplyDelete"Why would I immediately post a report when traffic is low on a Sunday night?"
ReplyDeleteTraffic was even lower when you were providing "live updates" of the move of the hardware store at 3 AM last Sunday.
Switching around the passive and active voice...
ReplyDelete"I nominate you for ultimate moron, old sport. It was discovered that the store was closed last evening."
Wonder if they are moving to a Mall in Fredericksburg?
ReplyDeleteFrustrated blogger attacking Dyer. Next up: debating blog templates :)
ReplyDeleteDyer's sites exist because the legacy media wasn't doing the job.
6:37: The fact that you believe True Religion closing is of the significance of Community Paint & Hardware being relocated in a massive operation with historic and real-time traffic impacts proves that, yes, you are a moron, and most importantly, a carpetbagger with no sense of Bethesda history.
ReplyDelete6:39: Using 3 of your tired old critique phrases in one article's comment section doesn't help you refute the fact that you are the lone troll paid to troll here as part of your duties for the MoCo political cartel.
6:33: You apparently missed the clown's comment I was responding to. Otherwise, you would understand the term "moron" was indeed warranted.
You write a local blog. It makes no difference if you follow a news cycle or not. You stories aren't time-sensitive. Furthermore, blogs are more related to radio and cable broadcast than print media, which still runs on hard "deadlines."
ReplyDeleteSo, old sport, it seems others do know a thing or two about publishing and news.
So how many people viewed your live coverage of the move of the hardware store?
ReplyDelete"6:39: Using 3 of your tired old critique phrases"
I think you meant 6:43.
Excited to hear about Kung Fu Tea!
ReplyDeleteEvery morning I get up and Robert Dyer has a story on a new restaurant or store!
Don't hate the Dyers, hate the Robert.
ReplyDeleteThe closing of True Religion was first reported by Patch. This story does not attribute their original reporting. Therefore this is plagiarism.
ReplyDelete"was first reported by Patch"
DeleteLol...
https://patch.com/maryland/bethesda-chevychase/true-religion-close-bethesda-store
ReplyDeleteJuly 6. 53 days ago. Also gives a reason for the closure - the company filed for bankruptcy.
Deb Belt publishes 100 articles in the time it takes Robert Dyer to publish one.
8:19: That was just a national story they convert for each local Patch. It WAS NOT a story announcing the store was NOW CLOSED in Bethesda. National story saying all would close at some point. Totally different story. God help you if you're relying on Patch for Bethesda news!
ReplyDeletePatch's biggest franchise at this point is posting restaurant inspection data.
ReplyDeleteLiterally dumping the reports.
They have no one on the ground in MoCo and one person populates the local sites from a Baltimore office. It's almost as bad as BethesdaNOW, which was run from an Arlington apartment building.
Not real news.
@9:06 Patch just pulls wire reports and press releases, and if "Bethesda" is in the article, they re-post it on Bethesda Patch.
ReplyDeleteThey used to have a real reporter with feet on the street. I forgot her name, but I was her doing an interview once. Anyway, they shut that down a few years ago. I believe Patch's parent company was AOL and they're not doing well, so they phone it in now.
R, did you report the Panera in Friendship Heights is closing? September 29 is last day. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDelete@ 9:11 AM - AOL spun off Patch in 2014, and AOL itself was acquired by Verizon in 2015. Patch has actually been doing better, and expanding, since it left AOL.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you deleted this:
ReplyDelete6:43 "Dyer's sites exist because the legacy media wasn't doing the job."
No, they exist because he puts them online.
I check this blog for news every single day. Dyer has been a great source of information on certain issues and at least attempts to cover things other media outlets don't. However, I do not understand his notion on posting information when people most check, since its not like I the information he posts would delete itself or I wouldn't notice a new article had been posted.
ReplyDelete"Patch just pulls wire reports and press releases, and if "Bethesda" is in the article, they re-post it on Bethesda Patch."
ReplyDeleteYou mean like Dyer does with his crime reports on his four blogs?
Not just crime reports! The moribund Sam Eig blog is an excellent example. Only a fraction of the posts have anything to do with the area the blog purports to cover.
DeleteRemember when Dyer used to run for office LOL.
ReplyDelete1:15: I had breaking restaurant news on Sam Eig just this morning. You're asleep at th switch again.
ReplyDelete1:37: Remember when Hans Riemer said he was an expert on open data and cybersecurity? LOL
So, Robert, what exactly is your expertise in open data and cybersecurity?
ReplyDeleteBetween the opening of a bubble tea restaurant in Germantown, and the sale of Lakeforest Mall for pennies on the dollar, I'd say the latter is the far bigger story.
6:21: Clearly superior to that of Hans Riemer. Perhaps you missed my report on the astonishing cybersecurity flaws at MCPS schools? Do you know what Hans Riemer has said on that topic, which directly puts students at risk every day? Zero! Also, unlike Hans Riemer, I would not allow the County government to operate on Windows 2000, as it was caught doing in 2014(!!). That had to be one of the most vulnerable platforms in the world, yet your "cybersecurity guru" Riemer had been in office FOUR YEARS at that point.
ReplyDeleteSale of Lakeforest was handed to the Business Journal, then copied by the small and slightly-failing magazine. Not expecting Pulitzers to go to either. Now my story exposing a covered-up underground fuel spill in Bethesda...that's real journalism.
We’re all puzzled and challenged by your unique point of view.
ReplyDeleteBack to the question at hand, This time without the distractions, distortions and irrelevancies, please.
ReplyDeleteRobert, what exactly is your expertise in open data and cybersecurity?
Dyer, you can't just write "I'm not Hans Riemer" and "I'm a lifelong resident of Bethesda" 20 times each on a sheet of paper and call it a resume.
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