Balducci's Food Lover's Market
Opened: unknown
Opened: unknown
Location: 6655 Old Dominion Dr, McLean, VA
Photographed: February 2021
Contributor: L.D.
Welcome to our first DC area store! This is the first of several posts from pictures sent in by a contributor. This 14,000 square foot Balducci's, in the northwestern DC suburb of McLean, may have previously been another chain supermarket, and I couldn't find an opening date for Balducci's either. This was one of the Balducci's acquired by Albertsons Mid-Atlantic in January 2021, when parent KB US Holdings went bankrupt. KB, of course, was just an LLC from a foreign investment firm to hold Kings and Balducci's. We've covered plenty of the Kings up in NJ (and NY/CT), but not too many Balducci's -- just Scarsdale and Westport. There are 8 Balducci's in total. Tomorrow we're going to see another Albertsons-owned store in town here on The Market Report!
There seem to be Yelp reviews going back into mid 2007, so it's apparently that old, or possibly older.
ReplyDeleteBeing as small as it is, seems a possibility that the space may have been something else previously as well? Just not sure what would fall in that size category, nor why the design of the front looks somewhat familiar...
It certainly could be a much older grocery store -- or any other type of store, for that matter -- which Balducci's moved into between 2000 and 2005, or so.
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