The sign looks fine enough from that last angle, but that's the view from the back of the store -- this is what you would see entering the store from the left-hand side. And it's a complete mess, with the first three letters completely illegible. This angle also shows that there was plenty of space to slide the sign to the right so it wouldn't have to bend around a corner, or even shift it to the left so the corner didn't come in the middle of a word! It's hard to get me to way anything bad about Lifestyle v2, and even more so about the Colorful variant, but this is an absolute train wreck.
Interesting, this is unusual. At my local 1980 Safeway, the area back behind produce was the pharmacy. At some other Safeways, they had a packaged breads alcove back there. So, with that, I wonder if the pharmacy was removed from this corner and they stretched the produce department back and this explains the strange angle.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the lunch meats display goes, at my Safeway, that would have been a dairy corner/alcove so maybe that explains the weird ceiling situation there.
The Richland, WA Safeway is probably the closest NW Safeway I can find to how our circa 1980s Safeway looked so maybe that'll give some hints: https://maps.app.goo.gl/UgBZnT6ubxaA4jNF9
Here is my former local Safeway, now Food Town. The pharmacy has been walled off here and there aren't service departments, but otherwise it looks pretty similar to how Safeway would have looked: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HLTHjWs7oVrChg226
Yeah, I'm not sure what the deal is with all this. Maybe this store got a different layout for some reason, or maybe it got modified at some point... who knows. It's also strange that this store doesn't have a lowered ceiling over the produce section like Safeways from this era normally did, unless the bit of drop ceiling on the left of this view is a leftover from that.
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