Up market

A surprisingly large portion of this store is dedicated to the liquor department -- almost all of the first floor, in fact, with the traditional drugstore portion relegated to the upstairs. The back wall is lined with this nice, semi-local-flair decor. 


I'm not sure if this was ever a standard decor package or if it's just a one-off, but if it's the former, "Up Market" would be a good name for it!

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  1. AnonymousDecember 12, 2021 at 7:55 PM

    Huh, it's strange seeing a Walgreens with that much wine and beer. Typically when people think of Walgreens beer around here, many jokes are made about the very low quality 'Big Flats' beer that Walgreens sold as their store brand about a decade ago, lol.

    The decor looks quite nice. With Walgreens downsizing a lot of their locations here with the Village Medical experiment and also some stores relocating to very small pharmacy-only locations, I doubt we'll be seeing much of anything this nice down here in Houston. Village Medical is supposed to expand even further across the country so I suspect most people will see the Walgreens downsizings we're seeing in Houston here soon enough.

    I wonder what the story is with that box in the drop ceiling?

    Based on what you wrote in the other post today, I wonder what happened to you at Nordstrom?!

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    1. Northwest RetailDecember 12, 2021 at 9:18 PM

      Yeah, it's definitely a little odd! This is nowhere near the entire section, even.

      This is the only store I know of with this decor, and even the less-fancy version Walgreens was using around this time has since been replaced with a super cheap design. Hence why I haven't bothered getting pictures of any other Walgreens! I have heard of Walgreens replacing normal stores with tiny ones in other areas beyond Texas, though I don't think that's happened around here yet.

      This is an old building with apartments (or maybe offices) above the Walgreens, so who knows what might be in there!

      Oh, nothing too bad... just being "politely asked" to leave, which wasn't actually an issue because I was taking my last picture when they noticed me, haha!

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  2. Albertsons Florida BlogDecember 13, 2021 at 12:27 PM

    This store appears to be one of Walgreens' larger format urban flagship stores. Since that's the case, the decor in these stores is based off the typical Walgreens package, but custom designed with some local flare elements and some other fancy touches to accommodate the store's higher-profile presence and additional amenities. For example, the Walgreens Chicago flagship has a similar decor to this store (including an "up market" department), but the graphics and color scheme are a bit different to make it more Chicago-y: https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x880e242badf437d5%3A0xaa16e768d77e8f13!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNlcxhnt-ZPKz5cnW2R7ancS5CCne-eCA06KIim%3Dw240-h160-k-no!5swalgreens%20chicago%20flagship%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCgIgAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipMs9egiyLEtmtCzYOo7nl0qnO2C7J55cgO-DzkJ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5oPDRzeH0AhXulOAKHSReCpkQoip6BAgyEAM

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    1. Northwest RetailDecember 13, 2021 at 12:52 PM

      Cool! I figured it wasn't unique, but it's certainly the only one I've seen. I don't believe this store is much larger than a standard Walgreens, but I guess they still consider it to be a higher-end store.

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