Original Grocery Tenant: Brockton Public Market Address: 597 Centre St, Brockton, MA Opened: 1950s Closed: ca. late 1980s Later Tenants: assorted non-grocery tenants Photographed: July 6, 2019 In the late 1980s, a new Super Shaw's opened at the Crescent Plaza in eastern Brockton. The chain moved from their 1950s-era location on Centre Street about half a mile north. The original location, here in a strip mall that's now very quiet, opened as a Brockton Public Market, later branded as BPM Grocers and then eventually Shaw's. Part (or maybe all?) of the roughly 20,000 square foot former supermarket later appears to have become a movie theater, which closed by the time I visited the property in 2019. Interesting that the pitched roof is also visible inside, even though there's a drop ceiling. I don't know what this store's layout would've been, but perhaps the produce department was here on the left side. The storefront is clearly an old supermarket. A Do...
Original Grocery Tenant: Price Chopper Address: 50 Cambridge St, Worcester, MA Opened: 2003 Closed: January 2025 Later Tenants: vacant Photographed: March 26, 2025 It's time to return to the Main & Cambridge Price Chopper, which closed at the end of January . The massive, 70,000 square foot store was built from the ground up in 2003, replacing an older store just north. The space remains vacant with several Price Chopper remnants around the property, although the signage has all been removed from the building itself. But Price Chopper banners remain in the parking lot, as do the cart corrals. Price Chopper said at the time of closure that they were looking for someone to sublet from them for the last several years on their lease -- nobody seems interested yet, although as I no longer live in Worcester I don't have my ear to the ground the way I used to -- and, as a result, it seems like everything has been left completely as-is. The Price Chopper...