Retail Forever

SAFEWAY #1399 Opened:  1978 Address:   3499 Sweet Air Rd Photographed:  October 2021 I feel like I really owe you guys a Tour right now, due to all the Glimpses I've been posting over the past four months, although due to, well, stuff, the best I can do right now is this Quick Look. Enjoy! This store is perhaps the oldest Safeway in the area, dating back to 1978, when it opened in the Manor Shopping Center. Likely due to its age, this store has no pharmacy. That's just about all I have, so please enjoy the pictures below.

RITE AID #476 Opened:  1978? Address:   3463 Sweet Air Rd Photographed:  October 2021 After our brief intermission from drugstores last week to take a peek at two Tom's stores, but this week, we're back in Maryland for one more drugstore -- Former Rite Aid #476 (Now a Walgreens). Rite Aid #476 was one of over 1,100 Rite Aid stores to be converted to Walgreens in summer 2019. I can't seem to find out when Rite Aid first opened (1978, perhaps, with the neighboring Safeway?), although I can confirm that Walgreens #19043 opened here in August, 2019.  Rite Aid #476 during the remodel to Walgreens (Google Maps Streetview) (Google Maps Streetview)