...this store, located between Rt. 9 and Rt. 4 in East Greenbush, NY got a Wellness remodel gone wrong.
How can they half-ass a remodel so badly? Those aisle markers are from the pastel Customer World era and those overhead signs are from the first Wellness era. The latter also applies to the pharmacy, which is now under Walgreens control.
In the main action alley, they put a laminate pathway (Wellness) in but left the original blue tiles intact? Normally in a remodel where they keep the tile, the blue ones are replaced with brown ones.
The "Big Daddy" of this topic, the main aisle signs. Clearly from the pastel Customer World decor era.
Just to be technical, this is on Route 9 (and 20 - they run together between the bridge from Albany to Rensselaer and Schodack when they split) and just a block up from where Route 4 ends (at 9&20, and across from a parking lot).
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I can't remember for certain when this store was doing the Wellness updates, but perhaps it was close enough to when Walgreens first started looking at them that they limited what was done?
Kind of like got in the middle of it and then figured it wasn't worth finishing if someone else was likely to take over and re-redo it anyway?
My apologies for not approving these comments earlier; kind of got lazy with the blog.
DeleteI suspect this was an early Wellness update (2011 when it first debuted), and like several Customer World stores, they only partially implemented it (most likely got the Customer World décor fairly late). It is rather odd that a purpose-built store got this failed update, normally the stores I've seen it in were converted Eckerds, which came with Customer World by default.