The frozen department starts in aisle 9, and is marked with fancy flooring (which used to be an Albertsons tradition for frozen aisles) and more of those big oval category markers (most of the store lacks category markers, which was common in stores other than Safeway in the 00s). I quite like Santa Fe's flooring design -- it's colorful while being less in-your-face than some designs Albertsons used. It's too bad most of this store just has plain white vinyl.
Ha, that flooring might have started out looking fancy, but now, not so much! It looks rather Krotesque! Well, I suppose tile scarred concrete is Krotesque, but then an old Millennium era floor which is chipped and scuffed like we see here isn't a whole lot better. Fortunately, Safeway floors rarely get to be this bad unless they go the concrete route.
ReplyDeleteWhile this isn't a Blue & Grey Market tetris floor, it doesn't look too far off of that!
Well... at least it's not as bad as that Industrial Circus store we looked at recently!
DeleteA lot of Safeways around here looked like this before their Modern remodels. Some of them still look something like this after those remodels, since they really cheaped out on the flooring!
Things aren't so bad here, but then Randall's stores probably get less traffic than Seattle Safeways! I suspect our stores are maintained better too. At least our stores get the nicer Colorful Lifestyle v2 flooring updates rather than the cheap Modern floors, though a couple of our Houston Randall's do have concrete floors now...including our only Modern store. Fortunately, those aren't ones I shop at!
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