The left wall of this store is home to the extremely small meat department plus deli meats space, perhaps the most obvious shrunken department compared to a normal-size Safeway. (Which is ignoring the fact that several departments are missing entirely, of course.) This part of the store is really showing its age, with the extra-low ceilings (though they crammed in a full-size aisle marker for aisle 1, surprisingly), random soffits, and glue-on ceiling tiles.
Wow, that's a very small meat department! I don't think I've ever seen anything so small before at a major grocer except maybe for those very small rural Krogers in places like Ohio and WV (many of which have closed here in the last half decade I believe). I'm surprised they don't have more steaks and hamburger patties for those buying the BBQ pits!
ReplyDeleteThe local Randall's would not have signage for bread & rolls like what's at this store since packaged bread like that is out in an aisle in the middle section of the store. Otherwise, the wall department signage is of a similar size to the departments here.
Realistically, this store is basically the Safeway equivalent of those tiny rural Krogers. That's why I'm impressed by what it does have rather than critical of what it doesn't. (Safeway has some similarly tiny stores in more typical urban/suburban areas, though, and those are a lot less easy to explain.) But still, I do agree that it seems like this is a department that they could get tourists buying stuff from!
DeleteThat signage isn't common locally either -- normally, packaged bread is somewhere near the bakery and not on a wall (though the exact location is quite variable).