The pharmacy sign is among the worst of the worst here, with practically no detail remaining on its mortar-and-pestle sign. Strangely, though, the pills on either side of it look perfectly fine! I'm guessing they were actually painted rather than printed like the more detailed illustrations. The pharmacy below it looks exactly like any other Safeway pharmacy, and I'm guessing it was remodeled in the late 00s/early 2010s (I can't remember exactly) with the rest of them. That may be when the Lifestyle-era signage showed up too, including hanging signs at the pharmacy itself and the plaques on aisle 10 (which also lost its diamond-shaped back aisle marker at some point). Proto-Lifestyle and Lifestyle used the same font for pretty much everything, but Proto-Lifestyle used Title Case while Lifestyle went with the trendy all-lowercase design.
That aisle 10 marker is a real mess. Not only is it missing the number, but it says "Home Care" when it appears to actually be health items in that aisle! It is also odd, as you point out, that 'vitamins' and 'feminine care' are in lower case. I suppose these were later additions.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's a common shortcoming of the named aisles Safeway used to use, especially since Safeway (before the Albertsons merger) used to rearrange their stores every year or two, and especially with older decor packages where replacements stopped being made a very long time ago. I've always liked the named aisle system, but I can definitely see why Safeway stopped using it.
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