Exciting news to report from everyone's favorite store, Rite Aid on First Avenue and East Fifth Street!
Goggla writes in:
"Whoa! The carpet is gone — the place is looking fancified! Not sure this will improve the hellish line experience, which is now blocked from the aisles. The lighting is very romantic, though."
Indeed!
Of course, at the same time, there isn't any carpet now to absorb a shoplifter from getting tackled onto the floor.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Local man decides to hack off arm while enduring a 127-hour line at Rite-Aid
12 comments:
And yet I still see the blue crate of death there in the pic. I wonder if maybe they'll stop stacking them in front of the aisles, so that people can, I don't know, shop?
Looks good! Did they retrain the staff to not be so surly?
Am I the only one that remembers when this was a dumpy supermarket? Used to be sort of poor man's Key Food. New fancy Rite Aid is nice.
The lighting is terrible because the aisles no longer align with the lights overhead. So they basically are lighting the top shelves really really well.
The dumpy supermarket there was a Red Apple - loved that place!
And I find it interesting that when Rite Aid put down their new floor they didn't level it out first. My cart rolled right away from me!
This store is my vacation portal to upstate rust belt culture. Who needs the tenament museum. This stuffs free.
I remember the place being a Met food in my youth.
Anon 8:01 - having went to school in Buffalo for 4 years, one thing I can tell you is this Rite-Aid, while dumpy, just does not convey the feeling of abject misery that actually being up there does.
It was Met Food... I remember thinking how Rite Aid had the same colors...
The lighting looks like the twilight zone in there. It's kinda creepy. But I dig the new floors.
The old supermarket was a Sloan's. I think it changed over in the mid or early 90s.
I'm sure that the supermarket there just before Rite Aid moved in was an A & P.
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