The strange setup does mean that the frozen department got its own wall sign, something that's fairly uncommon at Lifestyle stores. There's no lighting on this sign, though, which is part of why this area looks so dark in the previous photo! This all feels oddly akin to
an ex-Grocery Palace frozen foods aisle, or at least closer to that than anything I'm used to from Safeway.
I was going to say, even before you said it, that this reminds me a lot of my local Grocery Palace Randalbertsons! The Randalbertsons has the hanging cube signs though at least and the stuff sitting on top of the coolers at the Randalbertsons is a bit more of what you'd expect in the frozen food department! Link: https://houstonhistoricretail.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_8725-jpeg.webp
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what's going on with the missing Lifestyle v3 cubes here. Some stores never got them for some reason, but also they often aged rather poorly (as seen in your photo), so I wouldn't be surprised if some stores had them removed even without a full remodel happening.
DeleteDisposable styrofoam ice chests like that were finally banned in Washington this year, so I won't be seeing them in my Safeways going forward! Several other states had already banned them, and I wouldn't be surprised if California was one of them. Looks like your store had some cardboard disposable ice chests -- surprisingly, I haven't seen them around here despite the styrofoam ban, though I also haven't been looking.