The meat department is smaller than the seafood section, but it's still at least as large as what most stores have for a combined meat and seafood department! Service departments are a big deal for a lot of these specialty grocery stores, and T&T in particular dedicates a very large portion of their stores' space to them. It helps that this is quite a large store, though T&T's claims of it being "the largest grocery store in Washington" are a bit overblown considering how much of the claimed 76,000 sf is taken up by stockroom and office space (I suspect this store is intended to serve as T&T's warehouse for the handful of stores they're planning in the Seattle area). The salesfloor area is still pretty big though, taking up about 3/4 of Walmart's old salesfloor (or about 2/3 of the entire building).
Fred Meyer has a ton of stores in the 150,000 square foot range, and while they're still technically hypermarkets, Kroger has cut a lot of their general merchandise over the past decade or so. I'm sure some of them have grocery departments that are at least as large as this entire store!
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