Retail Watchers

HI there @Bradford011, welcome to the site! RetailWatchers primarily focuses on current retail, give or take a decade or so. Something this far back could be better suited to our "sister site", Groceteria , which is focused on retail history. There might be some additional folks there who...

That was very interesting, I'd never heard of most of these. Also didn't know that the Giant at the Bradlick Shopping Center was new-build.

I notice the Fairfax City location wasn't mentioned. I don't know when it closed, just that the building and parking lot sat empty for a VERY long time...

Never knew there was one in Falls Church, that comes as an interesting surprise.

It's nice when you can learn new things from sites like this...

Short-time lurker, first new thread. I though I would start posts on older chains in the northern VA area that are either gone or mostly gone and feel Magruder's was a good place to start. The flagship store was in Vienna; other stores were in Washington DC, Gaithersburg, Rockville and Alexandria. M...

Hello! Short-time lurker, first time poster. I saw Aldi hadn't moved in to Purcellville, strange anomaly despite being hugely successful now. Also, I do have to wonder what would be the case for Front Royal and any other pockets that have not received a grocery replacement for Food Lion. If the chai...