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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Peapod Pickup to Replace Chevy Chase Lake Sunoco

The Peapod grocery pickup location will open in the late summer or early fall, along with a Giant gas station, a Giant Food spokesperson told Patch.

The site of the former Sunoco gas station at 8500 Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase Lake will become a Peapod grocery pickup location as well as a gas station run by Giant Food by late summer or early fall, Giant Food spokesperson Jamie Miller told Patch. Peapod is the home delivery arm of—and sister company to—Giant, Miller explained. While Peapod charges a service fee for home delivery of Giant groceries, there will be no service fee for the pickup of groceries from the grocery pickup location. Read more about the new pickup location in Bethesda Now's article of last week. Setting up a storefront at which Giant/Peapod customers may pick up their groceries is a relatively new idea. Two pickup locations were set up last month—in …

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Laura L Thornton

9:41 pm on Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Yup, only, to get back out onto northbound Connecticut Avenue, it's another left turn or U-turn, or so I calculate.   more ›

Thursday, February 14, 2013

W Express: Cheap Gas, Now Without the Wait

The popular W Express gas station on River Road in Bethesda recently doubled the number of its gas pumps, making it easier to get relatively cheap gas in the area.

The W Express gas station at 5143 River Rd., Bethesda, generally has—by far—the cheapest gas in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase area.  And, the station recently doubled the number of its pumps—from four to eight—making it easier to get (relatively) cheap gas. Four more pumps make a lot of difference when it comes to getting gas on the go. According to MarylandGasPrices.com, W Express at 5143 River Rd. was selling regular unleaded gas for $3.71 a gallon as of 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 14. Nearby, the Valero station (5151 River Rd.) was selling gas for $3.72 a gallon, and the Sunoco station (5201 River Rd.) was selling gas for $3.79 a gallon. Most other gas prices in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase area were selling gas for $3.80 a gallon or more, …

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