Halloween in August? Really?
Seattlest lives close to what is easily the weirdest Safeway ever. The Wedgwood Safeway, any of the store's employees will be happy to tell you, has been serving the neighborhood since 1951 and is as small-town America as a branch of a major chain can get.
That said, the Wedgwood Safeway is definitely an odd place. It hasn't been updated in years so the now-common Safeway Earth-tone colors aren't in the produce section and the natural foods rows are afterthoughts. They're only a quarter the length of a normal row and jammed in at the front of the store with the seasonal items. To make everything a bit more surreal in this 1950s throwback store, the employees are all about 90 years old unless they're in management. Then they're 15.
In the few months we've lived in the neighborhood, we've grown used to most of the oddities of the place, but last night when we ran in to get a stick of butter, our eyes were caught by what is no less than a retail travesty.
It's not even Labor Day yet but the Wedgwood Safeway is already selling Halloween decorations.
Living in Wedgwood isn't really Seattlest's style (it's a little quiet for us to tell the truth) but we're okay with it for now. Okay, that is, unless we start seeing Christmas decorations in October.
