Since it was cold and wet during the conversion, they were unable to paint the exterior, hence why this building still has the Rite Aid paint trim color.
Since the original exterior entrance was repurposed for management offices, a new entrance was carved out the side. This might the reason a Dollar Tree logo was placed directly over the entrance instead of a second logo over the original Rite Aid facade.
Our first look in this store and we see Dollar Tree upgraded the lighting to LED and replaced the patterned tile with standard dropped ceiling tiles.
I'm not sure if this section was sold out by the time I arrived here or they didn't get any product in yet, but this is where the balloons would have been. Those offices were where the original Rite Aid entrance was.
Corridor to the restrooms and an emergency exit.
Standard restroom with a dull pressurized ZURN toilet.
Seasonal section to the right of the current entrance.
Blue Bunny Ice Cream cooler.
Dairy and Frozen Foods refrigerated coolers.
Final look at the front of the store.
Two months later...
Date Taken: May 3, 2017
Even though the trim was painted green, scars and wiring from the Rite Aid signs are still fully intact. This one would have read "Pharmacy" and "Department Within".
A green forklift is present behind the former pharmacy drive-thru.
Date Taken: May 9, 2017
A quarter view of the exterior showing the closed-off former Rite Aid entrance and new Dollar Tree entrance, and the logos representing each section. Still fails to hide the Rite Aid labelscars.
I feel like putting one of their circular icon emblems ("Everything's $1") on the other side of the old Rite Aid entrance facade would've been a nice compromise between covering up the labelscar there without having a redundant third Dollar Tree logo. As it is, it just looks kinda awkward.
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness, a better suggestion would be to use TWO circular icons for the original Rite Aid entrance facade to reduce redundancy, and make it look less awkward. They could have also went to the city for approval for a new paint job to further conceal the scars. This was just plain cheap from the start, and still looks cheap to this day.
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