The restroom signage is one of my favorite parts of Urban Mix (I always love when small touches like this still have good attention to detail), but it clearly didn't anticipate situations like this! As you can see by the graphics on the doors, you need to straight ahead and through the stockroom doors to get to the restrooms (this store's old enough that you have to wander through the stockroom to find the restrooms, and looking at the floor plan, it's rather convoluted to find them!), but if the sign had been installed with the restroom people pointing towards that door, it wouldn't have been particularly visible. So instead, they're pointing you towards the dairy alcove, which isn't exactly a proper place to use the restroom 😉
I'm not sure if those restroom figures are dancing or point people...away from the restrooms in this case, lol.
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly, Kroger greenhouse stores had the restrooms out behind the stockroom doors as well. I think 1970s-1980s Safeways, at least the ones we had here, were the same way as well. I suppose it wasn't that unusual of a design at one time, but I remembered thinking even back then that it was rather strange to locate the restrooms back there.
On an unrelated note related to old restroom designs, I wonder if the Kingdome had trough urinals in the men's rooms like the Houston Astrodome did. If you don't know what I'm talking about, some of these older stadiums had a giant bathtub looking thing and everyone would make a circle around it and urinate into it. It was a very bizarre experience!
Yeah, it's a fairly common thing in older Safeways here, too. This post is less about that and more about the sign mixup! Of course, there can't be all that many stores left that are old enough to have stockroom restrooms. Also, they're typically fairly close to the doors, but that doesn't appear to be the case here!
DeleteHa, that sounds crazy! I don't think I ever went to the Kingdome, or either of the successor stadiums for that matter.
You'd be surprised at how many Greenhouse Krogers are still operating as supermarkets here in Houston for Kroger or other grocers. The same is true with old Safeways. Of course, none of the old Safeways are still Safeways here, but they are operated by other grocers like Food Town and Fiesta.
DeleteHaving said all of this, I really don't know where the restrooms are in those old stores here in current times. I'm sure ADA compliance in the very early 1990s made restrooms like this obsolete in newer designs, but perhaps they persisted in their old locations in older stores as is the case with this QFC.
I rarely visit public restrooms except at work so I'm not much of an expert on them. I usually only know about them because I have to wait for someone else who is using one, lol. Maybe my experiences using through urinals at the Astrodome scared me from using public restrooms, lol.
I certainly don't use public restrooms that often either, but as a kid I often needed to, and Safeways were a common stop on road trips! I know that back in those days, a lot of Safeways still had restrooms in the stockrooms, but I don't know about these days either. About the only time I pay attention is when I decide to take a picture of the sign as part of my photo tour!
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