The first department within the store itself is produce, which stretches across both sides of the entryway. Not sure why the sign is so off-center relative to the underline, but it appears that that's pretty common for Neighborhood produce departments.
While this may not be all that unusual in the Northwest with QFCs and such, it's strange for me as someone from Houston to see modern Kroger decor in a building with such dated design features such as what we see in the ceiling and with the column!
ReplyDeleteFresh & Local is not my favorite Kroger decor package to say the least, but I have seen it look pretty nice at stores where Kroger has used decent fake wood flooring. OTOH, I remember seeing photos of a Fred Meyer some time ago with a painted green concrete floor and I'm afraid to say that this might be that store (or one of them at least) given what I'm seeing here! At least the green makes some sense in the produce department!
Even more so than QFC, Fred Meyer tends to keep old stores around for a very long time, so things like that don't seem too weird around here!
DeleteThere are a few Fred Meyers in the Portland area with those green concrete floors -- this store is one of them, along with the super cool Burlingame store. I'm sure it looked nice when new, but stained concrete floors never really last, and the one here looks pretty bad as we'll be seeing later.
Yeah, every produce sign I've seen from this package looks like that. I think it's intentional.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, QFC's ones sometimes don't, which is why I wasn't sure.
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