Amazon recently shut down its Amazon Fresh supermarket chain, including one its stores in Friendship Heights, a neighborhood straddling the Maryland and D.C. line near Chevy Case.
But the closure did not leave residents starved for grocery options.
While some other neighborhoods in the region are relative food deserts, Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe’s are only two blocks from the former Amazon Fresh. Shoppers willing and able to travel up to 1.5 miles into Bethesda or south into Northwest D.C. can find at least a dozen more full-service supermarkets or smaller grocery stores close by…