Harris Teeter is closing its store at 11845 Old Georgetown Road in White Flint. The store will close "on or before July 20, 2025," according to a sign that also promotes a closing sale with prices up to 50% off. This store has been rumored to be one of the lowest-performing in the Harris Teeter chain. It also has fallen victim to Montgomery County's puzzling decision to place a homeless shelter nearby, frequent thefts of merchandise and shopping carts, the general moribundity of the stagnant Montgomery County economy, the County's highest-in-the-region tax and fee burden, and the failed 2010 White Flint sector plan. The recent arrival of a Wegmans just up Rockville Pike was likely the final nail in the HT coffin.
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As I said before, the Wegman's has forced a couple grocers to close. Safeway nor Teeter. I didn't reliaze the homeless shelter. That location was never, ever busy so that doesn't help. With all the units in that area, you wonder why folks didn't flock to the place. It was a nice store. Too bad. Yeah, Teeter is often more expensive than Safeway and Giant. But, good experience overall. I think the Tyson's area store is closed as well. That was blocks away from Tyson's II parking lot.
Where do you suggest we should place our homeless shelters? Maybe some remote location away from everyone else perhaps?
I'm not sure the solution but they DO make life difficult for researchers.
By the way, this store is in the White Flint area. Always was, always will be.
Did you consider that it was just a bad location for a grocery store? It missed out on all the traffic on Rockville Pike. Btu no, you have to blame so many of your evil external forces to fit your narrative. MAGAt through and through.
Yes
Seemed like a good location. Built in audience in the attached apartments and large condo complex across the street. More apartments coming to the neighborhood. Maybe apartment dwellers don't buy as much or as often?
I think the store was planned with the assumption that the WMATA owned vacant land to the west would be developed by now adding tons of residential. I think the developer got ahead of his skis.
It's closer to the jail (pre-release center on Nebel) than it is to 355 @ 187.
For me this store had two flaws that made it so I'd only go there as a last resort. First, no self-checkout and often only one register open. It was frustrating to go there to buy a couple of items and have to stand in line behind people with full baskets. Second, the parking lot was not well-graded and I was always leery of runaway shopping carts dinging my car.
Your point being?
No, the problem is the store was just too big. Way too big for the amount of business they were doing and covid and post covid sunk it. Then the Wegmans came along………..
This store would have closed way before Wegmans came in. They stayed open too long after it was realized there is no way they will make a store that big profitable without lots and lots of customers.
You left out the failed nighttime economy initiative in your rant.
10:50: The real question is, with such wise and talented elected officials, why do we still have homeless shelters? Evaluate each case, and then transfer the individual to housing, a mental health facility, a hospital, or drug treatment. Like many political machines, the Montgomery County cartel needs its permanent homeless population to keep the grift going.
10:16: That wouldn't necessarily force a grocery store to close, but it previously did force many stores like Harris Teeter to end 24 hour operation, and then cut back late night hours. #oof
An fyi that the Starbucks Cafe in the Safeway on Arlington/Bradley is gone. The entire cafe station was ripped out about 10 days ago.
12:24 - Interesting. I was there not all that long ago and was furious. No one was at the Starbucks counter and I was told at that customer service desk that the woman was on break? On break, it was 9:00AM. What coffee place has a person taking a break in the prime coffee time of day? Good riddance.
That ne'er-do-wells steal AND the chosen store location is off the beaten path!
The comment regarding why we still have homeless shelters provided by you (Dyer) displays your callous, uninformed, uneducated, knowledge about the homeless population. Scholars, healthcare workers, and homeless advocates agree that two major contributing factors are poverty and a lack of affordable housing, both stubbornly intractable societal challenges. But they add that hard-to-treat psychiatric issues and substance-use disorders also often underlie chronic homelessness.
It's not as simple as you express in your evaluation process. As an example, private mental health facilities are not run for free, and ceased to exist at the beginning of the Regan administration. Perhaps your version of county government will establish a series of CMHC (Community Mental Health Centers) once run by the federal government prior to 1975, but I doubt your penny pinching, Scrooge management would allow it. The problem of solving homelessness is not so simple. Be best for once.
JAC: The staff did seem to be on break a lot.
I was at the store a couple of days before and then after the removal (there was/is a giant empty space where the cafe was), and I either missed the sign for the impending closure or the sign went up the day before the tear down.
I wonder if the Starbucks in the HT is slated for the same fate?
11:53 - Best to go to any Starbucks location instead. They're on nearly every corner.
When that happens, they corral you into one line hoping you'll pick up a fee last minute items like tic tags. it's all win-win for the store. If they can't check.me out expeditiously that ends our 'contract.' I usually just set the basket on the floor and simply walk out, perishables be damned. They get to pick it up, remove the trip hazard and restock whatever. I hope this incentivizes them, over time, to put on more checkers.
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