Once you're actually in the produce department, it looks pretty normal, with Proto-Lifestyle's diamond-patterned floor and cheap-looking plastic produce displays. The windows, and the extra-short produce cases below them, are still a reminder of the weirdness, however! I have visited one other Safeway with a superficially similar setup of low produce cases below windows, but it's a 90s-built urban store that is otherwise completely different from this store. I'm surprised they didn't switch to full-height cases to the left of the windows, instead of leaving the large blank wall, but I suppose since Safeway used a single-deck produce setup in this era, there wasn't much (if any) difference in capacity between these and standard cases.
Once you're actually in the produce department, it looks pretty normal, with Proto-Lifestyle's diamond-patterned floor and cheap-looking plastic produce displays. The windows, and the extra-short produce cases below them, are still a reminder of the weirdness, however! I have visited one other Safeway with a superficially similar setup of low produce cases below windows, but it's a 90s-built urban store that is otherwise completely different from this store. I'm surprised they didn't switch to full-height cases to the left of the windows, instead of leaving the large blank wall, but I suppose since Safeway used a single-deck produce setup in this era, there wasn't much (if any) difference in capacity between these and standard cases.

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