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Wow...nice store. The checkstands are right out of the City Target stores.The Clairemont Mesa Target (Balboa and Genesee) has the lifestyle displays. They look great in person.

submariner wrote:

klkla wrote:I've never seen that interior design before, either. Did it look like the store was remodeled recently?

I'd say so, it looked very fresh, and the floors looked very new.

I like it. There's a Ralphs in Glendale with a similar theme. Next time I am up there I will snap a few pics.

That was the same situation Save Mart was in. They bought maybe a dozen stores with the blue/gray mid 1990's Albertsons decor, many stores with the red/green mid 1990's Lucky decor, 3 with a late 1990's applied Jewel looking decor, a dozen or so with the late 1990's Albertsons "white walls&quo...

The harder question is flash back to 2000: Which chain seemed to be in a better spot on product trends, Safeway or Albertsons? Back then, in my view, Safeway was beating Albertsons in every market and I felt they had a far better quality/mix than Albertsons on both perimeter and private label. They...

Save Mart did 3 day turnarounds on its NorCal Albertsons and they did very similar remodels to Haggen (repaint walls and install new wall/aisle signs/checkstand lights). I am wondering if the redecoration is something Albertsons has encouraged these buyers to do (or forced them to do?). ... I wonde...

... https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7441/26711406984_759e1463f2_b.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7470/27043533010_1efb041042_b.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7352/26711405904_141a784b7a_b.jpg That store looks awful. The bagged salad section at my local VONS, which is a pretty small store, will ...

...10 years ago I would have said Safeway has a much better deli program than Kroger. The problem is Safeway has stayed the same and Kroger has made a lot of upgrades (Boar's Head, greatly expanded cheese, addition of baked seasoned and bbq seasoned chicken by the piece, addition of cold chinese fo...

Whole Foods has quite a few stores in the 30k square foot range that I've been into over the years. Most Wild Oats were that size or even smaller also. The stores are not as spacious as some of the others but they still seem to do a great business, probably better per square foot than the larger st...

klkla wrote:

rwsandiego wrote:The location was formerly a Ralphs and I believe an Alpha-Beta before that.

It was actually a Market Basket, then a Hughes Market, then Ralphs and now 365 by Whole Foods FWIW.

Yep, I was wrong. Not sure what I was thinking when I typed that. Thanks.

That looks like a Marina Safeway or a remodel that just looks like a Marina style storefront. Whole Foods is very careful about planning their stores. When a Whole Foods opens, their stores are packed with rich people who can spend. These new stores will try to be like Trader Joe's stores. It is un...