The first department around the corner from the entrance is the pharmacy, which is quite an odd sight for Safeway. This store has all five of Safeway's typical service departments (bakery, deli, floral, meat, and pharmacy), making it probably the only Safeway from this era that I've visited to have all five (without having an addition built at some point over the years). This appears to be the only pharmacy in Toppenish, so it probably does pretty good business.
Seeing the pharmacy as one makes the first corner of a Randall's store would not be uncommon at all, though the difference is that those corners at Randall's would be if someone starts walking through the store on the opposite side of produce. I don't think there are any Randall's with the pharmacy in front of the produce department, though my former local Safeway which opened in 1980 did have the pharmacy at the back of the produce department...and it looked a lot like this pharmacy, albeit without the Lifestyle finishes.
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