1230 VFW Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA

Original Grocery Tenant: Stop & Shop

Address: 1230 VFW Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA

Opened: 1960s

Closed: between 2002 and 2011

Later Tenants: Savers

Photographed: July 4, 2019 and August 29, 2026

Just around the corner from the Star Market we saw last week in West Roxbury is this Savers, a thrift store that opened around 2010. It took the spot of a former Stop & Shop supermarket, and it actually has quite a few remnants left. You can't see it from the facade, but the building actually is pitched-roof, or at least the center part is. I'm not totally sure how much of the building Stop & Shop took up -- it's a small strip mall, and I believe Savers' footprint is smaller than the supermarket's was -- but my best estimate was that, through expansions, the original 14,000 square foot store became around 48,000 square feet by the time of its closure in the mid- to late-00s (the most specific I can get is between 2002 and 2011).

Some shopping carts that I have to assume remain from Stop & Shop are around back at Savers' loading dock, and there's another reminder of the building's past at the loading dock:

Since I doubt Savers' inventory of clothing, housewares, books, and furniture needs to be refrigerated, I'm going to guess this sign about refrigeration is left over from Stop & Shop. Unfortunately, I can't find any articles on the store's closing or pictures of the store when it was in business, but Savers does actually have the pitched roof exposed inside. I returned to this store in the summer of 2026, so here's a look inside!

That wraps up our look at West Roxbury, and now we're going to go back east for Boston's largest neighborhood. Come back tomorrow to preview it!