Today is the last day of operations for the Amazon Fresh stores in Friendship Heights, and across America, with the exception of California where Governor Gavin Newsom has forced the grocery chain to keep operating until March to comply with the state's superior layoff notification requirements for grocery stores. I'm reminded of when some states required TV broadcasts to continue longer, even as living room sets were allowed to go dark in Maryland and other jurisdictions with corporate puppet elected officials. Some states just take better care of their (non-homeless) residents. Let's take one last look at the ambitious Amazon Fresh experiment in Friendship Heights, as the final grains of sand cascade into the bottom of the hourglass:
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That’s one heck of a weird digression.
8:31: It's an apples-to-apples comparison of state regulations protecting residents from a nationwide shutdown, so actually rather brilliant, I must say.
you are so chronically negative about where you live. It's always the county's fault for the "moribund" economy of business closings - never market conditions, or regular turnover, or a reflection of the poor business itself. Now the state's fault for letting this business close too fast - mr free market I guess you want the government requiring failing businesses to keep operating?
It's wild you're working at Amazon Fresh a week ago and then get told your store is closing in a few days and good luck.
Sensible to give people more notice.
Spot on! Thank you.
Be glad you don't work in a restaurant.
I threw up in my mouth after reading it.🤮
8:56am Strike a balance. We have significant, urgent problems where the county and state have basically put tape over the dashboard warning light for years.
Meanwhile, yes, there are good things happening around the county as well.
Both are covered here.
Just a little over six years since Giant closed at that location. My understanding is that the zoning deal that permitted the construction of "The Coillection" requires that space be used for a grocery. Who is next?
Sensible outside of the "business plan" is not in the A to Z alphabet of AmaZon.
It's not uncommon that employees and customers alike get literally no advance notice that the business they're working for or support is closing. The owners obviously know they're going to close. It's a nasty and selfish way to treat people, especially long-term employees.
Just two examples: Tastee Diner in Silver Spring (the notice was posted the same day the location closed), and Woodmont Grill in downtown Bethesda
https://washingtonian.com/2023/03/22/silver-springs-historic-tastee-diner-has-suddenly-closed/
https://robertdyer.blogspot.com/2025/10/woodmont-grill-signs-off-in-bethesda.html
No one’s “living room TV set went dark”. TV viewers were notified well in advance of the transition in broadcast TV format from analog to digital, and that those with older sets would need to buy (for a nominal, one-time expense) and install a converter to view TV channels after the transition date.
1:56pm forcing a grocery store in new developments seems to fail often. Look out Rockville Town Square - Super Fresh was supposed to be the grocer. Then a local Dawson's market moved in but had to be subsidized. They finally got a keeper when Trader Joe's took the space.
I miss the Giant.
4:33: That's definitely the rose-colored glasses view of how it went.
4:33. You're leaving out the fact that all portable stand alone tvs were then obsoleted. Btw, look at how Bill Clinton sold the bandwidth to falsely boost his sagging economy and sold out the future. Do your homework. Typically dim kneejerk.
Weird concept with 50 to 100 cameras monitoring and tabulating your purchases………
Aldi is expanding in the DMV. Maybe they will open in the vacated space.
5:02 AM:
"You're leaving out the fact that all portable stand alone tvs were then obsoleted."
This is false. The converter boxes were specifically for older "portable stand alone tvs" so that they could view digital broadcasts. And they even came with discount coupons from the federal government.
True: no such thing as hand held tvs.
Clinton ended all handheld tvs, fact.
@4:23 - Bring your "handheld tv" you'll get a discount.
Oh, you’re talking about those Panasonic and Sony gadgets from the 1970s and 80s. Didn’t flat screens and smartphones make those obsolete already?
We need a grocery there but Amazon fresh was a crummy grocery and won’t be missed
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