It's not your bathroom - it's a shop to buy stuff in. Hint - maybe Safeway failed in their business (if it was successful it would still be around) because of those tiles.
My local high street happens to have had Safeway too, it was then bought by Morrisons and then sold to tacky Somersfield - after that when Waitrose moved in it seemed like Xmas. Not sure about flooring - I go to shop to buy stuff, so I look at shelves, not floor. Then again I don't with a wife though.
It presumably makes commercial sense to have nice decor, which is why Waitrose put white vinyl on their floors rather than leaving them as grey concrete. In this case they spent money in order to make it look worse. How does that make commercial sense? (OK, they have a brand identity which presumably governs the interior decor in there stores as well, but imposing it in this case was vandalism.)
In fairness I should say that the Waitrose is still nicer (in terms of decor) than any of the several other supermarkets we could go to, it's not bad in absolute terms.
It does matter what things look like. I'm sure you wouln't want the appearance of every public place reduced to its cheapest equivalent. I'm still seething because a couple of mature trees outside my flats were removed by the management company. The reason given was that their roots were lifting the brick paving, creating a trip hazard. Why not just lift the bricks, smooth out the area with sand, relay the paving? Would have taken one person half a day to do.
When the company I work at underwent a sort of merger, all sort of interior refurbishment went on prior to the other company moving in. The building, though very nice, was tired inside, so the work did need to be done (unlike in the supermarket case.) However the renovation downgraded the interior of the building a lot. For example, toilets which had been tiled became painted in plain white. I thought at the time that unless cubicles were painted / redecorated on a weekly basis the place would become a disgusting slum, and I was proved right. Previously the reception had looked like something you might expect to see in an advertising agency, right down to having a very beautiful, very tall receptionist, stylishly dressed, with a very posh voice. The refurbished reception looks like something from an industrial estate, cheap and nasty furniture, carpet tiles that soon started lifting at the corners, and the reception staff from the new facilities management company look like prison warders in their blue security guard uniforms.
