Most grocery stores these days try to emphasize healthiness by putting produce directly in front of the entrance... this one took a very different approach, with the very first display you see being home to cakes, cupcakes, and pies! 😃 The bakery is the first department in this store's grand aisle, which runs all the way from the front left to the back right corner almost seamlessly due to the angled produce department along the back wall.
I don't know, around here it is pretty common to have to pass through a bakery at Kroger and Randall's stores in order to get to the produce. I guess it is all part of the power alley design! That Kroger that was the subject of this week's HHR The Year of Kroger post is a rare exception for a 'newer' Kroger (even then, it is 30 years old!) in that the main entrance there opens right up to floral and produce kind of like a Greenhouse store. The Signature stores usually open up to a bakery-fronted power alley. The Marketplace stores open up to produce I think, but that's assuming they don't route you through the self-checkouts at the entrance which, well, opens you up to the center aisles of all places. I'm not sure what Kroger is thinking with that!
ReplyDeleteInteresting! Basically all Safeways and Fred Meyers, and the most common layout for QFCs, put produce right up front next to one of their two entrances. QFC does sometimes put the bakery up front at the other entrance, but that's rather variable. And even in stores where produce isn't right next to the entrance, I often see a produce display or two right up front!
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