Once you get beyond produce, however, things start to get a bit odd -- all of the back wall departments are rearranged from the typical Lifestyle Safeway layout I'm so used to, starting with dairy in the back left corner where meat would normally be. This is presumably due to the store's
very strange shape, seemingly built right up to the Carmel River floodplain behind it.
While the cheap fake wood accents and slightly less cheap looking fake stones aren't exactly convincing me that this look is better than a Lifestyle look, the colors used at least in this scene does give the store a bit of a Colorful Lifestyle v2/Lifestyle v3 colorful look. Ok, the colors are a bit more washed out than Colorful Lifestyle v2 colors, but still, it is still way better than the dullness of a regular Modern store!
ReplyDeleteI was going to say that the flooring looks pretty good here, though I don't know what's up with that giant hole in the floor in front of the yogurt cases. It is almost like a peephole (or sinkhole?) into the future of a Krogtesque concrete floor!
I'm also not sure why there is a diaper display in the middle of the dairy area, but oh well, lol.
I don't know, I think it's pretty nice. Not as nice as regular Modern Deluxe, but you know how I feel about Lifestyle v3!
DeleteI'm guessing this store still has its original Lifestyle floor from when it was built. Unfortunately, this is how these old woodgrain floors look in a lot of stores around here -- Safeway patched the worst spots (with not-quite-matching flooring) during the Modern remodels, but holes like this have started showing up again and they're not really bothering with maintenance.
I think that's the clearance section (all of the packages seem to have orange clearance stickers on them), though I'm not sure why diapers would be on clearance!