Super S wrote: ↑September 13th, 2023, 5:08 pm
Still watching to see what direction the Albertsons in Battle Ground goes now.
This one is a museum piece, still has the Grocery Palace interior: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Alber ... ?entry=ttu
The Safeway is across the street from the Fred Meyer there... I expect that one to be divested and the Albertsons converted to Safeway assuming the merger happens.
I might've been to this store at a very young age actually... my father had a cousin living in Battle Ground (my parents were also thinking about moving us to the PNW back then. We were looking at Portland and Olympia).
The Port Orchard, WA rebanner also has little quirks like that. It’s the Uncanny Valley thing - it’s almost but not quite a Safeway, and I’m also absolutely certain it’s not surviving divestiture. It had a decent reset and light-touch remodel a few years ago (integrating natural/organic, some aisle swaps) but nothing they did this time made it look appreciably more Safeway-like aside from aisle labels and graphics package.
Super S wrote: ↑September 13th, 2023, 5:08 pm
Still watching to see what direction the Albertsons in Battle Ground goes now.
This one is a museum piece, still has the Grocery Palace interior: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Alber ... ?entry=ttu
The Safeway is across the street from the Fred Meyer there... I expect that one to be divested and the Albertsons converted to Safeway assuming the merger happens.
I might've been to this store at a very young age actually... my father had a cousin living in Battle Ground (my parents were also thinking about moving us to the PNW back then. We were looking at Portland and Olympia).
It is interesting they were not required to divest one of the Battle Ground Stores to Haggen before. The Safeway there does not perform particularly well, it is a small outdated store; the Albertsons does okay but for its size it should do better.
Not sure what the answer is in Battle Ground. Both the Safeway and Albertsons look to be sort of just hanging on. I think there is new development around the area. I wonder if Rosausers or some other operator may open a store out a little further which would basically make the Safeway and Albertsons redundant stores/no longer viable. The Fred Meyer isn't going anywhere; very high volume store. Battle Ground also has an above average Wal Mart Supercenter (very pleasant store).
It is interesting they were not required to divest one of the Battle Ground Stores to Haggen before. The Safeway there does not perform particularly well, it is a small outdated store; the Albertsons does okay but for its size it should do better.
Not sure what the answer is in Battle Ground. Both the Safeway and Albertsons look to be sort of just hanging on. I think there is new development around the area. I wonder if Rosausers or some other operator may open a store out a little further which would basically make the Safeway and Albertsons redundant stores/no longer viable. The Fred Meyer isn't going anywhere; very high volume store. Battle Ground also has an above average Wal Mart Supercenter (very pleasant store).
It's a similar situation in Salmon Creek. The Albertsons-now-Safeway is a mid-1990s era store, while the Safeway is in a 1970s era strip mall. The original grocer was Zupan's Food Pavilion, and I am not sure if Safeway completely rebuilt the store, or if it was just heavily remodeled. I think the former Albertsons is actually the larger of the two.
