Save-On drugs, not Sav-On Drugs

The pharmacy has the plainest decor of any department in this store, with just some simple letters (in a similar font to what Safeway uses these days) on a plain background. The special aisle markers look quite nice, though they also look like they'd be more at home at a post-merger Safeway than in this store; I like how they integrate the strange need to have "pharmacy" signs all over the place and avoid looking quite as strange as what other Vancouver-area stores have. 

Seeing this pharmacy reminds me how, back when Albertsons started randomly adding Sav-On Drugs signs to their pharmacies around here, my parents and I were convinced that was somehow related to Save-On-Foods on the other side of the border, a brand we were very familiar with thanks to their constant advertising on the Victoria radio station we liked to listen to (which probably advertised all the time on there since they were owned by the Jim Pattison Group too!). Looking back, it's strange that we thought that, but at the same time, none of us had ever heard of Sav-On Drugs up to that point, and to this day, I still don't get what Albertsons was thinking when they decided to introduce that brand to areas where it did not have any history!