The interior is pretty much untouched too, still showing Haggen's cheap conversion decor stuck on top of an obvious Lifestyle v2 background. Haggen tried to keep up their upscale brand alive with their conversion stores, but between the super-cheap decor, the stores that were typically older ones Albertsons/Safeway just didn't want, and the lack of any distribution infrastructure to allow them to sell their higher-quality products at ten times as many stores (leaving them to sell the same Supervalu/Essential Everyday products as Albertsons, which were never very good), the only "upscale" thing left was the price, and that's not a winning proposition. Well, except in Oak Harbor, apparently, where they're still operating their "Safeway but slightly more expensive" model (minus the Essential Everyday stuff, thank goodness) to this day.
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