Right inside the front entrance is the in-store bank's "self service center", which is basically a fancy name for an ATM (sure, there's a night-deposit box, but those functions have largely been absorbed by the ATM, and there are computer kiosks of some sort, but they don't appear to bee in use any longer). It's pretty unusual around here to see a grocery store bank still in operation these days! (I think Alaska USA is pretty much the only company that still has a decent number of them.) Even more unusual is how the exterior concrete blocks continue into the indoors here -- I've never seen that on a brick-and-block store before.
The bricks on the inside of the store is rather unusual. I can think of some Grand Union Weingarten's stores that had that, but that's going back to the 1970s-very early 1980s. Several 1990s-2000s era Kroger stores have brick in the vestibule, but I don't know if you really want to count that as the inside of the store. Here's an example. I know it's not obvious that this is the vestibule, but it is. Also, as you might gather, this Kroger is located near the NASA Johnson Space Center. If you see the concrete floors in here, the quote "Houston, we have a problem" might come to mind! Link: https://goo.gl/maps/opkTfmNpADtbB92Z6
ReplyDeleteYeah, the only store I'm familiar with that commonly uses a similar look is Costco, and in their stores, you're just seeing the exposed back face of the CMU blocks. It actually looks fairly nice here, as unusual as it is.
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