From now on, Safeway will be owned in part by all the other major grocery chains in the United States.
Each store will also have a manager who will tell each customer that in his day, people bought better food and knew how to shop "the right way".
"It's the fundamentals. You get produce, then you get some meat, then you get dairy. Kids today go buy ice cream first and then they get home and it's all melted. In the 1950s, we wouldn't have stood for this."
According to the article, there's 16,000 employees and 16 stores in the Washington DC area. That would be incredible to experience a 1,000-employee grocery store, but that's Washington for ya.
Of course, it was just a badly worded sentence in the article. The reader can't tell for sure what number of stores relates to the number of employees.
The more interesting factoid would have been a guess of the percentage of Safeway shoppers who are Nats fans. And how many management thinks will become Nats fans after the giveaway. Or how many Nats fans will become Safeway shoppers. Even better, how many Nats players will start to shop at Safeway.
There's a Safeway about 10 blocks from RFK. It's just been massively renovated in an effort to keep up with the gentrifying neighboorhood. It used to be called the Soviet Safeway (long lines, empty shelves). Now it has a Staebucks.
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Appropriate that Safeway is teaming up with the Nationals then, since (I think) Thomas Boswell once wrote that RFK Stadium "looks like it was designed by Stalin."
I only wish I could have worked Bowden in to the post.
Maybe Safeway will have buyers who will buy twice as much milk they need and then take the extra milk and try to put into beer bottles and sell it that way.
In keeping with Jim Healy's old maxim that baseball players are the cheapest of all pro athletes, my guess is that alot of them shop themselves to save money. On the other hand, how often do they ever make their own meal.
Of course, it was just a badly worded sentence in the article. The reader can't tell for sure what number of stores relates to the number of employees.
The more interesting factoid would have been a guess of the percentage of Safeway shoppers who are Nats fans. And how many management thinks will become Nats fans after the giveaway. Or how many Nats fans will become Safeway shoppers. Even better, how many Nats players will start to shop at Safeway.
Appropriate that Safeway is teaming up with the Nationals then, since (I think) Thomas Boswell once wrote that RFK Stadium "looks like it was designed by Stalin."
Maybe Safeway will have buyers who will buy twice as much milk they need and then take the extra milk and try to put into beer bottles and sell it that way.
But I don't think that joke works well.
9 Did you ever hear the story about how he ate a bug off the clubhouse floor for $500? http://tinyurl.com/jfu6m
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