Shaw's - Hyde Park, MA

Shaw's

Opened: unknown

Owner: Albertsons Companies

Previous Tenants: industrial > Star Market (opened ca. 1990s)

Cooperative: none

Location: 1377 Hyde Park Ave, Hyde Park, MA

Photographed: July 28, 2019

Welcome to just one of two Shaw's within Boston city limits! Although the chain has a large presence in the suburbs, the majority of the Albertsons-owned supermarkets in Boston use the Star Market banner. And actually, this one did too -- when it opened in the 1990s in a former industrial building, it was a Star Market (or, at the very least, it was intended to be). In fact, you can tell that because of the exterior similarities to ACMEs of the 1990s. At the time, ACME's owner American Stores also owned Star Market.

The roughly 52,000 square foot store is located right on Hyde Park Avenue, which is the main thoroughfare through Hyde Park. It's very far south in Boston, but not the farthest-south supermarket in the city. (That's Monday's store.)

From what I understand, the interior is rather similar in layout to ACMEs of that time, too. The produce department is in the front-left corner, and the bakery runs along the rest of the first aisle. Deli is at the back of the first aisle, with meat and seafood on the rest of the back wall. Frozen and dairy are on the left side, with pharmacy and floral in the front-left corner.

When I visited in 2019, the store had the same decor package we saw in Auburn prior to its renovation. It has since been redone with the standard current Shaw's decor.

At the time, there was a natural food department near the grand aisle, too, which I assume has since been removed. You can see that even a few years ago, the refrigerator had been filled with beverages, not natural foods.

Deli and seafood are at the back of the grand aisle, with bakery on the left-side wall behind produce.

I do like this decor package, but it's obvious it's dated at this point. The renovation looks very good, from pictures I've seen.

The grocery aisles are pretty standard, and I don't know if anything here changed in the remodel.

This low-contrast flavor text also made it into the following decor package.

Looks like an aisle may have been removed here for a double-wide aisle.

You can tell the space is a little awkward because it wasn't originally built as a supermarket in a few places, such as these columns on the back.

HABA and nonfoods on the left side of the store, close to the pharmacy. This store has two entrances and exits, one on each side (one bringing customers into the produce department and the other into HABA/pharmacy and floral.

Frozen foods with the distinctive flooring!

I like these angled category markers, although again, they look a little dated at this point. Still, I think they make sense with the diamond pattern in the flooring.

Dairy lines the outside/left-side wall of the store. I assume the fixtures are all (or mostly) original to the store, and I also assume that they were painted or replaced in the remodel as is so common for Shaw's.

Looks like there may have been some flooring patching here, or perhaps a bigger pattern going on that we can't see. Anyway, you can see the entrance door here, and the exit door at this end is just to the right of the below picture.

This Hyde Park store was very nice if cosmetically aging a bit when I visited (but, as you can see, maintenance has been impeccable). So it's nice to see it's gotten a renovation in the time since I've been here.

On Monday, we'll be seeing our next store, just south of here. Have a great weekend!