Happy Supermarket
Opened: unknown, before 2007
Time to get happy! Welcome to the small Happy Supermarket, an independent grocer of just 3300 square feet. Located on busy Blue Hill Avenue, the store has been in business since at least 2007 but probably for quite a long time before that. Side note: Blue Hill Avenue is a major thoroughfare and divided highway through a lot of southern Boston. When I lived in Boston, I didn't have a car, and Blue Hill Avenue was always a nightmare to walk on. I'm not the only one to have noticed this, and a redesign is coming. Happy Supermarket is definitely a local store for people walking, not driving, as it doesn't have a parking lot.
Despite the small size, there's a full produce and meat/deli department here, along with a few short grocery aisles. It's a bit of a distance to a full supermarket from here, so this store definitely fills a gap.
There's another Happy Supermarket in Jamaica Plain to the west that we'll see when we're in that area, and an apparently unrelated Happy Superette to the north of here in northwestern Dorchester, between Upham's Corner and Jamaica Plain at the north end of Franklin Park. As I remember, Happy Supermarket is supplied by C&S and uses Best Yet brand products.
Owner: unknown
Previous Tenants: unknown
Cooperative: none
Location: 868 Blue Hill Ave, Dorchester, MA
Photographed: June 15, 2019
Tomorrow we're headed just under a mile east to check out a nonprofit grocer along with a former grocery store across the street!
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