I questioned a checker at Slaveways (as Jon called them) a couple of years ago when I saw they'd come up with a brochure explaining the store layout. The employee enthusiastically told me how Safeway wants every store in the world to be exactly the same, so that if one shops for groceries in Timbuktu, one can find the pickles as they are in the same aisle as in the Safeway at home. Chilling! As if that is desirable!! I hate how you are driving along and realise the corner that just went by, with a Burger King, a Mickey D's, a Safeway, a Target, a K-Mart or what have you, takes the placeness out of places, so you might just as well stay in one spot. And that corner might be in any number of places around the world. As Gertrude Stein said, "There's no there, there." <---------Our Goal!! apparently