Safeway's wasted opportunity

Safeway's wasted opportunity
Originally uploaded by rllayman.

I am working on a paper about how urban supermarkets can take better advantage of their location.

This Safeway store is the model for the coming store at 5th and L Streets NW.

It is pretty, but wastes its urban location.

It has a flower section and a Starbucks, and food preparation and produce on the window sides, with no openings to the street! other than the main entrances--one at each end of the block.

You'll see as I post other photos, how this is blown.

I hope there is still time to get Safeway to think more creatively for their store in DC.