The Market Report

America's Food Basket Open: 2006-2020 Owner:  Edwin Polanco Previous Tenants:  Supreme Markets (late 1960s-late 1970s) > Purity Supreme (opened ca. late 1970s) > Capitol Supermarket (closed 2006) Later Tenants:  Price Rite Marketplace (2020- ) Cooperative:  America's Food Basket Location:  500 Geneva Ave, Dorchester, MA Photographed:  June 15, 2019 Well, you can tell something's up with this store just from that exterior picture. What's going on with the temporary banner for a store that had been open for 13 years when I visited? Well, this store's history is actually quite interesting. It was constructed with the rest of this strip mall at Fields Corner in the late 1960s as a Surpeme Market, a local chain owned by the Cifrino family. Supreme merged with Purity Food Stores, becoming Purity Supreme by the late 1970s. Purity Supreme was acquired by Pathmark owner Supermarkets General Corporation in 1984, and SGC later sold the chain to Stop & Shop ...

Trường Thinh Supermarket Opened: 1999 Owner:  Joseph Pham Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  1305 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA Photographed:  July 27, 2019 Dorchester's Savin Hill neighborhood has the area's largest Vietnamese population (there are also Vietnamese communities in Springfield and Worcester's Main South neighborhood , along with a few other towns in Massachusetts). And there are two substantial Vietnamese supermarkets on Savin Hill -- Phu Cuong Market , which we toured on Friday, and Trường Thinh. This is the slightly smaller of the two, at 13,000 square feet, and the older as it's been in business since 1999, but it's still a well-appointed and pleasant store. You enter on the left side of the store to produce along with dairy and frozen foods. Seafood and meat line the back wall of the store, with grocery aisles to the right. As you can see, this store is a bit smaller than Phu Cuong but feels much smaller, especially in ...

Kings Food Markets Opened: by 1964 Owner:  Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  255 S Livingston Ave, NJ Photographed:  June 28 and July 1, 2025 Remember the Livingston Kings? You might recall my posts from their transition, after Albertsons Companies acquired the chain in 2020-2021 (scrolling through my posts tagged Livingston will show you many of those posts from 2020-2022). The Livingston Kings was expanded significantly in a ca. 2012 remodel, moving the deli, bakery, and prepared foods departments (and the registers) into a row of neighboring storefronts. On the far left side of the store was originally a cafe and coffee shop , along with some prepared foods and baked goods . Shortly after the renovation was complete, that area was walled off for a liquor store. When Albertsons Companies took over, the cafe was removed, too, and customer service moved into that corner. The liquor store became a kosher department in 20...