Good Fortune Supermarket
A little more than ten years after Kam Man opened in Quincy, another Chinese supermarket opened up directly across the street. At 25,000 square feet, it's quite a bit smaller than Kam Man and H Mart, which opened in 2022 up the hill from these two stores. Prior to Good Fortune, a building supply store occupied this building, but beyond that, I don't know the history. I don't believe there was ever another supermarket here, though. Good Fortune redid the exterior when they moved in.
You enter to produce and seafood on the right side of the store, with a meat counter at the back. The first several aisles are frozen foods, with refrigerated items on the back wall. There's more frozen foods on the left side of the store, and a small bakery/cafe in the front-left corner.
Good Fortune is a Chinese supermarket chain that originated in Queens, New York, and now has locations in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens along with Providence, RI; Falls Church, VA; and Richardson, TX. They also have an ownership stake in the Gold City Supermarket in Flushing.
Good Fortune has also had a handful of other locations over the years that have since closed, including one in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn that's now the independent HL Supermarket.
Seafood is obviously a big draw here at Good Fortune, at least given the enormous seafood department taking up practically one entire wall facing the produce department.
Several rows of coffin freezers separate the produce, meat, and seafood departments from the grocery aisles.
And refrigerated items line the back wall of the supermarket. Even though there's a lot here, it's in areas like this that you can tell this store is on the smaller side.
At around 45,000 square feet, the Providence location is nearly twice the size of this store.
There are also a few short, lower aisles with assorted general merchandise and sale items between the grocery aisles and the registers.
A look at the bakery and cafe in the front corner. If I remember correctly, there's also a small seating area here.
Back over to the back wall for the refrigerated items in the back-left corner...
...and one more row of freezers take up the outside of the last aisle.
And looking back to the other side of the supermarket, with produce and seafood visible on the far side.
Opened: 2014
Owner: Kuan He Wu
Previous Tenants: non-grocery tenants
Cooperative: none
Location: 230 Quincy Ave, Quincy, MA
Photographed: August 4, 2019
Tomorrow we're going to check out a small grocer just north of here towards downtown Quincy!
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