West Hollywood Pavilions installed doors on all refrigeration units a couple of months ago. Looks great!
I was referring strictly to bakery (non refrigerated) where Safeway started putting open air cases for bagels/rolls in the early 2000's (no doors), then Albertsons seemed to start doing door based cases again, but for some strange reason this new store in Reno from 2021 got those open air cases again.
I hope they do a better job with those doors on refrigeration than Kroger. Smiths went through here a number of years ago and installed doors on various open refrigeration areas of the store at all of their locations (salad mixes/prepack vegetables, deli prepack meats/cheeses, cheese/lunchmeat/eggs). The doors seem to fall off from time to time and it takes them weeks/months to get them fixed. One store came up with a creative solution to address the problem efficiently- they started over in bagged salads (there is a section of refrigeration there that is a single long wall case and 1/2 wet rack and 1/2 bagged salads so that case was just covered 1/2 with doors for bagged salad to begin with) and just started to remove those doors and relocate them to where replacements were needed (the most used doors in milk/eggs seem to be the common ones that are breaking). So that store now has half of its bagged salad covered with doors and half of it not.
The one thing I will say with these doors at Smiths is they are doing a good job keeping them clean. There is a cleaning schedule and they do hold to it. The courtesy clerks are used to do the cleaning.
*Squee*
They kept China Express and the sandwich bar! That's pretty cool.
If I lived on "Lower Queen Anne," unless I was already a MetMarket loyalist and/or didn't need a pharmacy, this would be a quick bus ride or car drive up the hill to this beautiful store. (there is a "Lower Queen Anne/Uptown" Safeway including a pharmacy that is a big long awkward layout, but fine enough). Just think when Magnolia's dumpy lil' Albertsons gets the same treatment!!!
West Hollywood Pavilions installed doors on all refrigeration units a couple of months ago. Looks great!
I was referring strictly to bakery (non refrigerated) where Safeway started putting open air cases for bagels/rolls in the early 2000's (no doors), then Albertsons seemed to start doing door based cases again, but for some strange reason this new store in Reno from 2021 got those open air cases again.
I hope they do a better job with those doors on refrigeration than Kroger. Smiths went through here a number of years ago and installed doors on various open refrigeration areas of the store at all of their locations (salad mixes/prepack vegetables, deli prepack meats/cheeses, cheese/lunchmeat/eggs). The doors seem to fall off from time to time and it takes them weeks/months to get them fixed. One store came up with a creative solution to address the problem efficiently- they started over in bagged salads (there is a section of refrigeration there that is a single long wall case and 1/2 wet rack and 1/2 bagged salads so that case was just covered 1/2 with doors for bagged salad to begin with) and just started to remove those doors and relocate them to where replacements were needed (the most used doors in milk/eggs seem to be the common ones that are breaking). So that store now has half of its bagged salad covered with doors and half of it not.
The one thing I will say with these doors at Smiths is they are doing a good job keeping them clean. There is a cleaning schedule and they do hold to it. The courtesy clerks are used to do the cleaning.
I had a back and forth with Kroger customer service about my local Ralphs and refrigeration. Closest store to my house. I always pack perishables into a couple of coolers in my truck and I put ice packs in those. I could purchase perishables, especially any of the prepacked produce like bagged salads from that walking distance close Ralphs and they never, ever make it to the sell by date without getting slimy and turning brown. Every single other chain operating in the area, not any problem. I told them they clearly have a temperature issue caused by a failure someplace and they need to figure it out, my assumption being improper storage as they do a drop and hook refrigerated trailer that is in the direct sun all day due to noise curfew for no overnights. They finally stopped the email discussion, but a month later pretty much everything but meat in the store got those doors. I have to wonder if the air conditioning in some of these open ceiling buildings where there are fewer but much larger vents creates situations with drafts and hot/cold spots that interfere with the open coolers ability to maintain temperature. Hence even though the doors seem cheaply made they are more for keeping the "outside" store air out rather than inside air in.
