Original Grocery Tenant: Stop & Shop
Address: 1230 VFW Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA
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:
Opened: 1960s
Closed: between 2002 and 2011
Later Tenants: Savers
Photographed: July 4, 2019
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. 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!
I think that those carts are older models from Savers
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