Monday, December 17, 2012
The neighborhood grocery store packs a range of local, national and imported products into 25,000 square feet.
Kevin and Jason Kirsch are the busy owners of the Chevy Chase Supermarket. While supervising maintenance of a checkout counter, fielding phone calls, greeting customers and overseeing the everyday tasks of maintaining a grocery store, they still make the time to listen to small companies looking to sell their products in their store. “We work under the theory that small businesses should support each other,” Kevin Kirsch told Patch. Their open door policy means that they will listen to a company’s pitch at any time before noon, to determine whether their grocery store would be a good fit for the company’s product. The product could need a new ingredient, labels, bar codes or PVC codes before the Kirsch brothers would be willing to open …
Friday, October 26, 2012
"We've got the flashlights, the batteries, the water and—more importantly for these storms—we've got the candy and the potato chips," the Chevy Chase Supermarket Emergency Broadcast System reported.
Not sure what to stock up on before Hurricane Sandy hits? Just call the Chevy Chase Supermarket Emergency Broadcast System at 301-656-5133 to get all the details. "We activate this system for those once-in-a-lifetime events, and those events seem to happen every six months in this area," supermarket co-owner Kevin Kirsch said on the pre-recorded message of the broadcast system when Patch called the number at 1:30 p.m. Friday. "We just want you to know that we're prepared and we're ready to go. We've got the flashlights, the batteries, the water and—more importantly for these storms—we've got the candy and the potato chips," he added. "We update this message regularly with important information—everything you need to know to fight a storm…
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
The price tag of a commercial generator can exceed $50,000, "The Washington Post" reported.
After the June 29 derecho left Chevy Chase Supermarket without power for several days, Jason and Kevin Kirsch, co-owners of the family-run supermarket, tried to save the store's goods by moving them into a refrigerated trailer outside the store, Patch reported. But, when the trailer's power went out, the goods were all lost. The store's estimated loses were $100,000, Jason Kirsch told The Washington Post. Still, the Kirsches won't be purchasing an electricity generator for the store—it's too expensive, Jason Kirsch added to The Post. "The cost for a commercial generator can exceed $50,000," The Post quoted expert Dale Davis as saying. Davis is president of CMI Solar & Electric, a Newark, Del.-based company that serves customers in Maryland…
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
With many area grocers forced to toss hundreds of pounds of perishable foods after Friday's storm, residents may find restocking their refrigerators a challenge.
As community members look to restock their refrigerators following four days of countywide power outages, many may find empty shelves at local grocery stores. Restaurants weren’t the only businesses forced to throw out stocks of perishable food items after Friday’s derecho storm knocked out the power to refrigerators and freezers in grocery stores across Montgomery County. Patch saw dozens of store workers cleaning and restocking empty shelves in Safeway and Giant store locations on River and Falls roads in Potomac Monday morning. The stores were open for business, but had little in the way of frozen foods, ice, produce and other perishables. Many shelves were empty or quickly running out of perishable food at the Safeway at the Shoppes …
Patricia J. Kelly
3:10 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Ch Ch Supermarket has done a good job of keeping up with the ever changing food trends, and they still maintain a friendly neighborhood store. Good food and a great staff.....hey Big John just how many years have you been working there 40?? :) more ›