I love the term "remarkable temple to groceries". Perfect.
I remember the Safeway store I grew up shopping in. It was a nice, neighborhood-sized store, and after the first Safeway superstore was built in my town we started calling ours "the little Safeway" to distinguish it from the monster. Then Safeway decided to tear down the little Safeway and build a superstore on the site. When it opened, wow, totally different world. Greeting cards and wine and drugstore sundries and office supplies and... actually less food. Also the bakery stopped making local favorites; their baked goods became a showcase of the average items that sold at every Safeway everywhere.
(If you read fantasy and SF, that was the Safeway store where David Eddings was the produce manager.)
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I remember the Safeway store I grew up shopping in. It was a nice, neighborhood-sized store, and after the first Safeway superstore was built in my town we started calling ours "the little Safeway" to distinguish it from the monster. Then Safeway decided to tear down the little Safeway and build a superstore on the site. When it opened, wow, totally different world. Greeting cards and wine and drugstore sundries and office supplies and... actually less food. Also the bakery stopped making local favorites; their baked goods became a showcase of the average items that sold at every Safeway everywhere.
(If you read fantasy and SF, that was the Safeway store where David Eddings was the produce manager.)
(Edited to correct a few typos.)