**UPDATE: A new Market32 at 709 Central Avenue is scheduled to replace this store on June 14, 2024.**
In this mini-post, we take a look at a store with an expanded ethnic food offering - and probably one of the last stores to still use the green Rehrig shopping carts. The photograph dates will bounce all over the place, so kind of expect it as not much has really changed!
Date Taken: November 23, 2020
Store was built in 1995 and renovated sometime around 2000, giving the interior open-truss ceilings. Was labeled as "Market Center" until the late 2000s when the first two aisles were expanded to have their own dedicated International foods section, hence the tagline on the building. The orange awning color came a little later. The façade is flanked by green Rehrigs on either side.
Date Taken: June 19, 2017
The first aisle is quite sizeable, as it has foodstuffs from countries you wouldn't find in most American supermarkets.
Date Taken: October 29, 2019
Rather than upgrade to a set of lame, boring Unarcos, this store installed new Rocateq wheels on their green Rehrigs as a means of further extending their lifespan. Unlike the old locking wheels, these ones have the additional security feature of locking at the exit if the cart bypasses the registers. The cart still has to be unlocked by store personnel like any other wheel-locking system.
Date Taken: August 1, 2020
At this point, the fluorescent lighting was replaced with LED retrofits. All the grid lighting has smooth diffusers that make it impossible to see the LED strips inside of them.
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