Safeway Pinehurst remodel update: That's all, folks!

As far as I can tell, the remodel at my Pinehurst Safeway is completely done now! In fact, it was probably all done last week, but I gave it another week just to be sure. Seeing as that's just over a month since it started, this was a very quick remodel (though not quite as quick as it seemed at first).

Thankfully, the very nice cafe seating area did not end up getting permanently removed after all, though it's still closed for the foreseeable future (in-person restaurant dining reopened a while ago, though since the world is still falling apart, not a ton of restaurants have reopened and while I suspect stores could reopen their seating areas as well, they don't seem to be in any rush to do so) and lost its actual sign.

Sadly, I guess this is going to be the finished state for the right-hand wall, with no wood trim or signage and an extremely bland paint job. At least the wine sign doesn't have a hole in it anymore, though!

For the most part, the checkerboard of ceiling tiles did eventually get fixed, though there are still some incorrect ones like the one right above the pharmacy sign here.

The health and beauty aisles kept their rare Lifestyle v2 category marker bands (a nice surprise, though these really cheap remodels of existing Safeways do tend to leave behind lots of remnants). They have been supplemented by new category markers, though, and they don't always match up. Heck, on the left side of this picture, neither the old nor the new category markers match the products: That's clearly lotion, not sun protection or bar soap/body wash! I'm not sure how that could happen when the new category markers were just put in a couple weeks ago...

I thought this juxtaposition was fairly amusing -- who knew hair dye helped with incontinence?? Anyways, unlike the (way cooler) light bars that Retail Retell just posted, the sign bands here do appear to have been designed to allow for modification -- it's just that no one bothered to adjust them.

Somewhat unusually, the pharmacy got new Brown Decor drop-off and pick-up signs -- but for some reason, they were both installed over the same counter, even though there are three counters here and at least two of them are active. I'm pretty sure they were both installed over the pick-up counter. I know that some stores tend to only use the pick-up counter for both, but this doesn't seem to be one of those stores.

Nothing too exciting in this view (or most of this set, to be honest, since this store was almost all done the last time I showed it), but here's a look down the left wall. The ceiling was all put back to how it should be, but on the floor, the corner guards on the coffin cases appear to have been forgotten. They had been sitting on top of the upright cases off to the left, but instead of being reinstalled, they just disappeared at some point.

Nothing too exciting in produce, either, though I don't think I mentioned before that this store didn't get the typical "Organic" sign, meaning that the produce sign got the fancy wood-grid background instead. What's weird is that this store went from two produce signs to one, the exact opposite of what happened in most of these Safeway remodels. I'm surprised at how nicely this picture turned out, too!

And finally for this store, here's a random look at the cafe seating area from the self checkouts. I do quite like all the windows in this part of the store, but sadly they don't do a great job of bringing in natural light to the rest of the store.

And that's it for another, relatively short-running remodel live updates series, something that I doubt I'll be doing for a while now! But I said that a while back, so you never know what could happen...