So, back to that strange layout I mentioned earlier. This store is basically designed as three "rooms", divided by islands and connected by narrow hallways like this one. The first "room" is the produce department we were just looking at, followed by the deli island, the second "room" holding the bakery, meat department, and most general grocery aisles, the pharmacy island, and finally some more grocery aisles that are primarily home to dairy and frozen. This store is an awkwardly long and skinny shape, similar to my current local Safeway which itself has an awkward layout, but this is extra weird -- I suspect the design with produce in its own separate space divided from the rest of the store by the service departments is an intentional choice, since the other new-build Canada Safeway I visited was similar in that respect, but the pharmacy stuck in the middle of everything is just weird.
I don't know, this looks like a very Safeway-like angle here even if everything else isn't so Safway-like! The contrasting flooring colors are a nice touch as well.
ReplyDeleteI suppose the color is pretty close to Lifestyle Beige, at least! The flooring looks quite nice in tight areas like this, but loses the effect in the large open spaces, where it looks like just a big sea of white tile.
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