The First Retail Trip of 2021

In order to make the new year more unique, we decided to go to an unusual store before going to the main attraction.

This is one of two stores operated by Byron's Village Market, in Schuylerville, New York. The other being in Cambridge, New York.

All but one of the carts consisted of these Tote Carts. The MFG. info was mostly unreadable on these.

Inside, we see bagged produce at the cramped front of the store.

The ceiling drops even lower as you are brought into a larger area of the store.

While this old Unarco had some Byron's Market labeling, the side panel shows Greenwich IGA, which was a store that closed in September 2000, only to be re-opened under a different name a year later, but that failed quickly.

The larger half of the store, which appears to be an expansion.

This corridor takes us back to the front.

How old is this?!

That wraps up the tour of this place, now onto the main attraction...

This is Big Lots #4714, which opened on October 20, 2020 in the space formerly occupied by Big Kmart #9274. This is where its former self as a Kmart ends, as we will soon realize as we walk in.

Inside, we see that Big Lots gutted the space and gave the store open ceilings and concrete flooring, which like so many businesses that do tile to concrete conversions, leave unsightly tile marking behind.

What is this purple border? We'll find out soon enough...

Typical for an SOtF store to have furniture in the center of the store and have wood accents on the floors and ceilings.

What's this? Big Lots has updated its décor philosophy in new SOtF stores sometime in 2020. Now everything is dark purple on white instead of color-coded departments in the first SOtF décor philosophy. 

While the Advance Carts HC-200s are no longer interesting, this store had these advertisements inside the logo panel promoting their Big Rewards membership for 15% off your next purchase.

Well, I think we are done here! I hope you enjoyed the previews of things to come this year!