The main feature of this view is the funky trompe-l'oeil thank you sign, but to be honest, I mainly took it for the bizarre "snow facts" poster! I've put a close-up below just for the heck of it (I have no idea how the pharmacy neon from outside the store ended up reflecting off of it so perfectly!). The Community Card that they're advertising next to "the Fresh Board" is also an interesting concept -- it's basically a reward points card like what Safeway or Kroger do, but instead of the points accumulating toward a discount for you, they somehow translate into donations for local organizations. Unfortunately, Yoke's only describes this in very vague terms on their website, so I don't know exactly how it works, but it's still a neat concept.
Back in the day, around here at least, it was common for local grocery chains to give a certain percentage back to local charities if you registered for them. I know for sure Gerland's Food Fair here in Houston used to advertise that service quite regularly. At some point, this went to a card system, but they had some paper way of doing it back before cards were common. Of course, it was also common for supermarkets to issue cards to customers for check cashing purposes and there were also video rental cards as well. So, yeah, cards were certainly around at supermarkets even long before discount/loyalty cards! It is interesting that Yoke's still does the charity thing. It is possible some grocers still do it, but don't advertise it. It has always been more of a local grocer thing though and most of our local grocers now are discount/Hispanic one so they probably don't do it anymore.
ReplyDeleteThere are a fair number of southerners who have chionophobia! Well, maybe it is more like a fear of being around other drivers on the roads when it snows/ices! Now that is scary around here!
Huh, interesting, I must have completely missed that era, or maybe I just didn't shop at the types of stores that would have done that sort of thing!
DeleteHa! I'm always afraid of Seattle drivers when it snows around here, especially now that I live on a hill!
Some very interesting stuff here!
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