Grocery Stores

After years of waiting — and then a few more years of waiting — Ward 7 looks to have a bona fide grocery anchor for the long-planned Skyland Town Center project: German grocery chain Lidl.

As D.C. representatives attend the ICSC Retail Conference in Las Vegas, big grocery store news came for Ward 7: the city's first Lidl will open at Skyland Town Center.

Adrienne Dove pulled up to the checkout line of the Giant grocery store in Southeast Washington with a cart filled with cabbage, bananas and bagged string beans.

As the only full-service grocery store in the community, the Safeway on MacArthur Boulevard served as a landmark for residents of the Palisades neighborhood in Northwest Washington.

What began as Adrienne Dove’s routine visit to the doctor’s office ended more like a life-changing sales pitch of sorts. The physician checked Dove’s blood pressure, which has been dangerously high of late, and then the two started…

Wards 7 and 8 have more than 150,000 residents, and only three of the city’s 49 grocery stores. (For comparison, Ward 7 has just as many grocery stores—two—as a 0.1 mile stretch of Columbia Heights.)

For seven years, Washingtonians with chronic illnesses affected by diet have been able to obtain prescriptions for fresh produce from doctors and redeem them at area farmers markets. Local nonprofit DC Greens operates the Produce Rx…

A group of DC residents is taking matters into its own hands to bring more grocery options east of the Anacostia River.

The multi-faceted Art Place development in Fort Totten has come out with some new perspectives of and details on how the development will look and be experienced.

The Safeway at 4865 MacArthur Boulevard NW will close on May 4, according to the company.

In addition to welcoming an Amazon campus across the Potomac River, DC residents may also be shopping for their groceries in an Amazon store at this time next year.

Aldi has agreed to open a 25,000-square-foot store at Art Place at Fort Totten, the Cafritz Foundation's redevelopment of the Riggs Plaza apartment complex at South Dakota Avenue and Kennedy Street NE.

For years, Philip Sambol has wrestled with the question of how, exactly, to open a community-focused, locally-owned, non-profit grocery store in neighborhoods historically overlooked by traditional supermarkets.

Residents of the District’s Ward 8 can soon add Good Food Markets to the short list of fresh, healthy food options in the community. According to Mayor Muriel Bowser, the grocery store located at 4001 South Capitol Street Southwest is…

LYFT’S FILING this month for an initial public offering was followed by a display of public-spiritedness: The ride-sharing company is partnering with nonprofit Martha’s Table to offer discounted trips to supermarkets in the District’s Wards…

The mixed-use development that has transformed Northeast D.C.'s Brookland neighborhood will soon be fully built out.

Regional grocery chain Wegmans has some intense fans, who’ve been thrilled with the store’s forthcoming debut in D.C. at what was once the headquarters of Fannie Mae. Now, there’s a name for the development on 3900 Wisconsin Avenue NW where…

The market accommodated their whims and needs for more than 40 years, so when neighbors heard rising rent was driving the shop to close, they did what they could to help: Letter-writing campaigns, petitions and a protest. More than 1,400…