Peapod Pickup to Replace Chevy Chase Lake Sunoco

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 Clarksville, MD, and Columbia, MD, Miller said. (Giant is based in Maryland, and has 171 stores in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and Washington, DC.)

Earlier this spring, the former Sunoco gas station on the site was demolished, leaving residents wondering what was next.

Giant decided to open the pickup location in Chevy Chase Lake after determining that the need existed in this area for this kind of service. With a Peapod pickup, one's groceries already are selected and packed up, but there's no worry about the groceries getting delivered when one is not at home.

Sounds convenient enough. The only hitch is that it's on the west side of the thoroughfare, so picking up one's groceries on the way home (if one is driving home via the northbound lanes of Connecticut Avenue) will require two left turns across Connecticut Avenue.

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Read more about the new pickup location in Bethesda Now's article of last week.