The prepared foods department here is quite elaborate, taking up most of the left-hand wall in addition to the specialty islands. It has pretty much the same categories of stuff you would find at many modern grocery stores (think QFC or a Lifestyle Safeway) -- sushi, fried and rotisserie chicken, and other assorted hot foods, but with a larger selection and seemingly better quality (especially compared to what Safeway sells these days). Sadly, pizza wasn't one of their offerings -- I definitely would have tried it if it was, since I always love comparing grocery store pizza!
Ha, I'm trying to think if any supermarkets around here even sell pizza anymore. Some Krogers do, usually Marketplace stores or regular ones with some Marketplace features. Aside from that, I don't think pizza is on the menu anymore. I'll have to think about that. Market Basket most certainly does sell pizza, and it is reasonably priced. We almost bought one, but they are Costco-sized pizzas. That was way too much for us and we weren't really in a position where we wanted to travel with leftovers.
ReplyDeleteWhile not exactly similar, the round signs remind me of some of the decor used by Lunds & Byerlys, the supermarket chain in MSP which has carpeted stores. The Lunds & Byerlys ones hang from the ceiling and look a bit like London Underground signs. Anyway, these are neat stores: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ramjXVSZ2AHA3ZG2A
Yeah, it's definitely not a super common thing these days, especially individual servings/by-the-slice pizza. Albertsons used to have pizza kiosks in a lot of their stores, but they're pretty much all gone now. Haggen has it in some stores (unsurprisingly, since they tend to have very elaborate prepared foods sections), and QFC has a couple locations with in-store Tutta Bella restaurants, but I don't think Kroger's own pizza section has been installed in any Fred Meyer or QFC stores around here.
DeleteWow, those signs do look a lot like London's roundels! I'm not sure how I feel about a carpeted grocery store -- seems like it would take a lot of maintenance and upkeep that I'm not used to seeing at my local stores, even the higher-end ones. Those signs also remind me of some of the ones at the MSP airport... which is also excessively carpeted (though it's getting a remodel now that will replace some of that with much-nicer terrazzo).