Retail Watchers

Is anyone just a little surprised that Safeway didn't end up with these stores? It would fill a major geographic gap for Safeway, which has stores across most of the West except in Idaho and Utah. Granted, Safeway divested Utah in the 1980s, but that was a different time. The grocery market in Utah ...

I was in all three Cheyenne Safeways in July 2008. It's an interesting group of stores. The downtown store is a blast from the past, with the old circle S on the outside. I attached a few pictures below. I managed to snap them with a cameraphone without getting thrown into Safeway jail. The Cole Sho...

Storewanderer, I agree with you -- I don't like seeing the tiles removed either. That store now seems much darker than it used to -- it makes it seem closer to a warehouse. If they were taking out 25-year-old nasty floor tiles, I would probably be OK with that. But these tiles were only seven or eig...

Yes, the former Safeway / Albertsons is alive and well. It's been divided into three spots: Hoback Sports, Staples and Dollar Tree. As I recall, that store had the blue-grey Albertsons interior. If you walk to the back of it, you'll see that it's been added onto a couple of times, almost certainly a...

The Jackson, Wyoming, Albertsons just got a thorough remodel. The store is about eight years old, replacing a smaller store that was previously a Safeway and Farmer Jack. The store had only received a major reset since it was opened, when a larger natural/organic section was added a couple of years ...

The Jackson, Wyoming, Smith's just got a lite remodel where they ripped out all of the floor tiles, moved the Floral section into the one-hour photo area (which was replaced with digital photo kiosks), and got some new equipment. This store is only seven or eight years old -- I thought it was really...