Plan view

As promised, here's my very rough attempt at drawing up a plan view of this store. If this picture looks sideways to you, that's because this store is sideways, being somewhere around 3 times as deep as it is wide (normal Safeways are both closer to square and, obviously, wider than they are deep). And it feels like Safeway's designers kind of gave up when they saw the space they were working with, coming up with a layout that seems rather inefficient and just disjointed, with departments broken up in weird ways and aisle that are either really long or really short. It was even more frustrating with the one-way aisle system in place, but I saw yesterday that the floor stickers were all gone, so that's a positive development at least! (I noticed that far fewer people at this store bothered to follow those rules than I was used to seeing at other stores, probably because the one-way system just didn't really work here.)