The Market Report

Star Market Opened: 2015 Owner:  Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants:  Star Market (early 1970s-early 2000s) > Shaw's (early 2000s-2015) Cooperative:  none Location:  33 Kilmarnock St, Boston, MA Photographed:  April 18, 2019; July 5, 2019; and July 27, 2019 Yikes. You can tell this is a 1970s store for sure! Nothing like some drab gray cinderblock for a beautiful supermarket exterior. This low and flat store did in fact open up as a new-build Star Market in the early 1970s, spanning a long and thin space of 30,000 square feet. The store is oriented to face the street, which you can see in the below picture, but there's a parking lot on the right side, which is in the first picture. Like so many other Star Markets, this one became a Shaw's under Sainsbury's ownership in the early 2000s and stayed Shaw's up until 2015, when it converted back to Star Market. The store also got a renovation at that time, and it was actually a rather extensive remodel. More on...

Whole Foods Market Opened: 2003 Owner:  Amazon Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop (opened early 1970s) > Bread & Circus (1995-2003) Cooperative:  none Location:  1065 Westland Ave, Boston, MA Photographed:  July 20, 2019 Supermarkets come in all shapes and sizes. Some are just a little more... unusual. And today we're going to see a round one! Well, to be accurate, it's actually a half-circle one. The roughly 20,000 square foot store opened in the early 1970s as a Stop & Shop, closing at some point before 1995. In 1995, gourmet food store chain Bread & Circus opened up shop, which had actually been owned by Whole Foods for three years at that time following Whole Foods' purchase of the Boston-area chain in 1992. In 2003, the Bread & Circus stores were rebranded Whole Foods . The Whole Foods we saw at the Charles River Plaza about two weeks ago was also a Stop & Shop that was slated to become a Bread & Circus, but it opened after Whol...

Star Market Opened: 2015 Owner:  Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants:  Shaw's (2003-2015) Cooperative:  none Location:  53 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA Photographed:  July 21, 2019 and November 13, 2021 Welcome to the Prudential Center Star Market! This is the largest supermarket in the neighborhood, but it's still on the smaller side at around 40,000 square feet. It opened in 2003 as a Shaw's, replacing an older Star Market on Boylston Street about a block and a half north at 800 Boylston. And although that store was older and smaller, it wasn't even that old, having opened in 1993. This new-build location was a flagship Shaw's, and you can see more of the original store design on this page , and some other locations. The store is a triangle, with the rotunda you can see above at the corner of Ring Road and Huntington Avenue. The front-end lines the left side wall, to the left in the above picture (or seen below), with the grand aisle along the right-side wall...