Philadelphia Retail with PlazaACME

 If you guessed we're going to Colorado again, you'd be right! It's kind of a quick visit this time, I didn't cover much new ground but still got enough to get a full post from... most of which you can thank a Safeway and Park Meadows Mall for. Safeway, Frisco, CO This location opened its doors in 1977. It was expanded sometime in the 90's, then heavily remodeled in 2006 to the Lifestyle décor. Honestly I thought this was a new building up until I researched for this post, they did a great job remodeling it. There's a prepared food alcove around the entryway, directing customers away from the checkout counters on the other side. Here's the bakery department. This end of the store was in the 90's addition. After the Albertsons merger, all the spotlights here were disconnected and replaced with fluorescent strips. It makes this part of the store a lot brighter, but is a huge downgrade aesthetically.  I don't exactly remember what path I walked around t...

 We're back! Sorry for not posting the past couple weeks, I was kinda drowning in finals week work but we should be good to go now. And don't worry- as I have nothing more productive to be doing over my exceptionally long Christmas break I will be cranking out those two extra posts in addition to my usual Sunday posts to keep us on schedule.  Today we're going to be mostly looking around West Philly today, but mainly in the much safer University City neighborhood. After that, we'll be taking a quick look around a couple other places outside the city. Rite Aid, Logan Square This rather small Rite Aid opened in 2016 on the ground level of a new apartment building. It's one of the only new non-replacement stores the city has gotten post-Eckerd merger. They've got the market pretty well saturated around here so there's not too many other places they could cram one- in fact, they've already got another store in Logan Square that they doubled in size the same ...