I'm not sure I trust the quality of this store

In front of the Clicklist room/former additional electronics space, Fred Meyer added this corny "Brands you love/Quality you trust" sign. This seems like a bad slogan from a transitory advertising campaign, but according to Retail Retell, this is a standard part of Artisan -- though in Krogers, it's normally blue (I guess that makes sense -- Kroger's logo is blue, while Fred Meyer's non-logo is red) and elsewhere in the store (they probably just stuck it here since they had blank wall space). Behind the sign is some really bad fake-brick wallpaper. 


I really don't get why Fred Meyer loves leaving little alcoves like this when they wall off departments along the front wall. They do that with the old Playland spaces too. It really makes it blatantly obvious how there's something walled off here, whereas just putting the new wall in line with the rest of the wall would make it look much more cohesive.

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  1. This kind of reminds me of the "The quality you need, the price you want" slogan Kmart used in the early 1990s! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqoN7oMKjac

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    1. This is not really related to anything, but here are a couple of old Seattle area Safeway commercials you might like to see.

      1977: https://youtu.be/u8DXTuAor_w
      1984 Safeway electronics from the Everett Bremerton area?: https://youtu.be/T6mD2bZc9w8

      This next video is from Canada, but US Safeways would have had the same decor. From about 6:30 on in the video, a guy walks around a Safeway looking for blank VHS tapes and more. It has a pretty good view of the decor: https://youtu.be/iJP_5JGfYpo

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    2. Ha -- but Fred Meyer wouldn't be able to say that about their prices! 🙂

      Those are cool! It's so weird these days to think about buying something like that at Safeway...

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  2. Thanks for the shoutout! Yep, from what I've seen this is standard Artisan, right down to the white brick background (which I actually don't mind in its Kroger application, since it breaks up some of the ugly blank wall, haha!) I also agree that it looks quite bad having this weird closed off front end alcove...

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    1. You're welcome! That's weird, but at least it sounds like it makes more sense in Krogers...

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