I do feel like the designers made an unforced error by putting the white Safeway sign right on top of the white beam through the glass, making the sign somewhat difficult to read. Then again, using a black sign might not have been much better, looking at the pharmacy sign in the previous image!
One way of knowing we're closer to Tacoma than to Seattle is to see that there are no Subarus in the parking lot, but there is a Mazda Navajo of all things! I'm not even when I last saw a Mazda Navajo or the even related Ford Explorer of that era. Certainly the latter was a lot more popular at one than than the former! Also, there are plenty of Toyota Tacomas in the parking lot, but maybe that is to be expected!
ReplyDeleteThat white sign just doesn't work there even if those white bars weren't there. The only way to make a sign like that work is to use something like red, but I don't think Safeway has used red signs in a long time. I don't really like these types of facades anyway, but this actually looks worse than HEBs with a similar glass front just because of the sign color issue. At least HEB uses red signs. Here is a comparison point of an HEB of a similar age to this Safeway: https://maps.app.goo.gl/o6Mar36mzxPRXWhi6
There may not be any Subarus in this picture, but there is an old B9 Tribeca in the previous one! Those don't look much like any other Subaru, though, so I can't really blame you for missing it! I hadn't even noticed that was a Mazda, but Ford Explorers of that age aren't a particularly rare sight around here, though they're getting less and less common as time goes on, obviously.
DeleteYeah, Safeway hasn't used red signs since they came out with the current logo. That HEB also benefits from the beams in the facade being painted a color that blends in more with the glass, rather than bright white as in this store!