THE HORROR OF GROCERY SHOPPING IN WASHINGTON, D.C. The apartment building where I lived (The Latrobe, at 15th and Rhode Island) now has a Whole Foods behind it, but when I lived there the pickings were slim — there was a Korean grocery, but it wasn’t much. I always kept a car (my apartment came with parking) and that let me head out to the ‘burbs to stock up on staples.