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Down Main Street of St. Michaels - Maryland
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Giant Foods: One of the first supermarkets
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  • b1bob
  • Updated By b1bob on December 1, 2006
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  • Giant Foods - Maryland
    Giant Foods
    by b1bob
    Giant Foods was founded during the midst of the Great Depression. At that time, grocery stores relied on high markups to make a profit, but people could no longer afford those prices. So, it seemed logical to the founders that, since the public was desperate for lower prices, the only answer was to replace high markups with high volume -- an innovative approach at the time. The founders of Giant reasoned that a large store that sold a lot of goods and operated on a self-services basis could afford to sell the food at lower prices. There also were many sceptics who said such a system could never succeed. They felt that these supermarkets would never catch on, and that opening one was a very risky business. They were sure enough wrong about that, weren't they? I had a hard time deciding where to put this tip. It is based in Largo, Maryland and a plurality of its stores are there, but they are prominent in northern Virginia and in Washington, DC. There used to be some down in the Richmond area too, but trade union demands kept the prices too high to compete with its open-shop counterparts. When I was at university, I would sometimes shop for small things in Fairfax at University Mall.

    They do offer a wide variety of foods, pharmaceuticals, and toiletries. In most stores, there is a meat room, deli and bakery.

    However, the prices are higher due to a combination of higher tax rates in their area together with compulsory trade union membership by employees.

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  • Theme: Food and Drink
  • Directions: Giant Food can be found in the Washington, DC area in suburban Maryland, Washington DC proper, and Northern Virginia.
  • Website: www.giantfood.com
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    Security Square Mall: Security Square Mall
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  • Updated By b1bob on December 24, 2003
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  • Security Square Mall food court - Maryland
    Security Square Mall food
    court
    by b1bob
    Security Square Mall is a one-storey mall with 5 anchor stores, a movie house, a food court and 100 other stores. Among the key stores are Sears, Burlington Coat Factory, Old Navy, Seoul Plaza, International Furniture Company, and Hecht's.

    Just about everything can be found here.

    Security Square is not a particularly upscale mall like Richmond's Short Pump Towne Centre, but it is not a rundown mall either.

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  • Address: 6901 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244
  • Phone: (410) 265-6000
  • Directions: Area map
  • Website: http://www.securitysquare.com
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    Hagerstown Prime Outlet: Hagerstown Prime Outlet - It's shopping time!
    mangpor
  • Updated By mangpor on September 11, 2007
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  • It took me two hrs to get there, a little bit far from where I stayed (College Park). This place was very nice. Although, I felt a bit hot because the walking path was open-air, there were many brandname shops (eg. Coach, Polo) that were not easy to be found in any other outlets. All the girls enjoyed shopping a lot and we accidently met in the same shop so often.

    I spent a whole day in there, so I would suggest to be there early and don't forget to grab some outlet maps to manage your shopping route!

    Cloths - Aeropostales, Polo Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Banana Republic
    Beauty - Perfumania
    Bags - Coach

    Oh... I did enjoy shopping. It was too scary to see my credit card statements at the end of the month -_-'

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  • Theme: Discount Store
  • Address: 495 Prime Outlets Boulevard, Hagerstown, Maryland
  • Phone: (301) 790-0300, (888) 883-6288
  • Website: http://www.primeretail.com/cntrdefault.asp?cntrid=1026
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    The Town of St. Michaels: Summer wares from the Islands anyone?
    RhondaRuth
  • By RhondaRuth on September 24, 2003
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  • Down Main Street of St. Michaels - Maryland
    Down Main Street of St.
    Michaels
    by RhondaRuth
    Lot's of gifts shops and antiques in this little Resort Town on the Chesapeake Bay!

    Just about anything you want or
    what you don't want, hahaha.

    Depends on the season. Sales go on at the end of the season like anywhere else.

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  • Directions: Saint Michaels, MDis a quaint waterfront village on the Eastern Shore, sandwiched on a picturesque peninsula between Tilghman island, Easton and Oxford.
  • Website: http://www.stmichaelsmd.org/
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