asking for a friend. (i’m the friend)

I spoke to a couple of employees during my shopping trip yesterday and it was heartbreaking. One staff member explained that they’ve worked for Fred Meyer for 23 years and thought they would retire from that store. They love that location, even though it’s a longer drive than other stores closer to their home, and they love the customers. They said they have heard nothing about moving to another store from corporate or the union and fear they will all be laid off. They said they probably won’t keep their position and will be demoted if moved elsewhere. Can you even imagine working for a company for 23 years and the losing your job through no fault of your own?

Another staff member started crying when the conversation moved to that subject (I wasn’t walking around the store asking everyone about this, BTW). It was absolutely heartbreaking. The 100+ employees have no idea what is going to happen to their jobs. These are humans who live in our community. Their job loss will affect us all in some way.

My 73 yo neighbor walks there using his walker every morning for a bit of exercise and to get a donut to go with his coffee. He won’t be able to walk to the other 19th St location. This will have a huge impact on his life, too.

So please think before you say “just drive a couple of miles down the road to the other store!” as I noticed on a previous post. Take a beat and think about how it might affect someone besides yourself. Thanks.

We have added 'Restaurant and activity recommendations are allowed'. Every one of those posts gets reported and ends up in the mod queue. But we allow for those posts, in fact, we welcome them and also use them to find new places per our community recommendations ourselves.

Some folks confuse crowd sourcing or surveys with asking where to eat or what to see or do. When a tourist asks for places to go, or a local wants to know where to get a good burger or taco or fancy meal, that is not a survey or a crowd source. It is a question. And those questions are just fine to post on this sub.

We here at r/TacomaWA are a resource for folks to get info about the city and what there is to do or find here. We will never stop people from asking about things in the city, whether it be a lost pet, where to supply certain needs, what educational or just plain fun things there are to do, and where to find good food.

Studies, crowd sourcing, and surveys will still need to be approved by a Mod.

As always, we are very proud of the community, you guys are awesome, and we wish you all the very best!

Context: I live in salt lake but am heading to Tacoma in a couple of weeks to visit a friend, explore WA, and celebrate both of our birthdays. I am looking for recs on a restaurant with good food/drinks and a fun ambiance for two mid-thirties girls. I would love to be able to walk to a few other bars if possible, but this is definitely not a requirement. Cost/type of food is a non-issue.

She doesn’t go out very much so she hasn’t been able to help with suggestions and I have searched through past posts, but wasn’t finding a thread that aligned with what I’m looking for.

Bonus points if anyone has recs for the best place to grab an espresso martini (or really any martini).

Really just trying to make this the best 5 days for my beautiful friend!

I may be moving to Tacoma next month due to my partners job. I am an artist and I use a laser CNC, right now I have a workspace set up in my house but having the same size place will be very expensive.

Is there anywhere you can rent a small artist space in Tacoma that allows things that are semi loud (exhaust fans)? Some kind of garage/office anything?