The Market Report

Save-A-Lot Opened: 2020 Owner:  Madison Foods / Todd Slawsby Previous Tenants:  Family Food Land (open by 1992, closed after 2002) > Save-A-Lot (open by 2007, converted 2020) Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Location:  330 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Roxbury, MA Photographed:  November 13, 2021 Today's second post is the Price Rite at the Washington Park Mall, and the first is the store before its transition to Price Rite . Originally the Family Food Land, this supermarket became Save-A-Lot between 2002 and 2007, then converted to Price Rite when its owner, Madison Foods, left Save-A-Lot and joined Wakefern in 2020. Here's a look at the entrance to the mall, which is (amazingly) a rather busy, fully-indoor mall. You can't even get to the supermarket without going through the interior mall hallway. The mall is small -- only about 100,000 square feet -- and anchored by the Marshalls and Price Rite, but also has a number of small stores. The Price Rite looks a lot l...

Save-A-Lot Open:  opened between 2002 and 2007, converted 2020 Owner:  Madison Foods / Todd Slawsby Previous Tenants:  Family Food Land (open by 1992, closed after 2002) Later Tenants:  Price Rite Marketplace (2020- ) Cooperative:  none Location:  330 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Roxbury, MA Photographed:  June 2, 2019 Welcome to one of two supermarkets here in Roxbury! The neighborhood has a very low density of supermarkets compared to other neighborhoods in the city, but it's about to get another one. Vicente's, a chain we recently most saw in Brockton , is preparing to open about two blocks from this store. The store is located within the Washington Park Mall and takes up around 25,000 square feet. I'm not entirely sure of the history of this mall, but it appears to have been opened around the 1980s. The original grocer here, Family Food Land, was open by 1992 and closed at some point after 2002. Save-A-Lot, owned by Madison Foods, opened between 20...

And with that, we've finished Jamaica Plain. We toured three supermarkets and visited quite a few smaller stores and former grocery stores, so if you missed any, you can use the map below to navigate to that store's post. Coming Up Next From Jamaica Plain, we're headed east to Roxbury, which is as you can see the neighborhood pretty much right in the middle of Boston. Bounded on the south by Roslindale and Dorchester, Dorchester to the east also, Jamaica Plain on the west, and Longwood and the South End to the north, Roxbury is a green but urban neighborhood that's considered by the city to be "the heart of Black culture". Roughly half of the neighborhood's residents are Black, with an additional 30% or so from Latin America. And despite the name, we're several miles away from West Roxbury , a very different neighborhood. You'll see several unusual names throughout the city, such as the fact that South Boston could reasonably be described as...

Now that we've finished Jamaica Plain's main grocers, let's check out some of the small stores around the neighborhood! The majority of these are around Egleston Square on Washington Street, which is a bit of disputed territory (some might call it Jamaica Plain, others will call it Roxbury). To me, anything to the southwest of Columbus Avenue is Jamaica Plain, but the other side of the street is Roxbury. Anyway... Egleston Square Yessenia's Market Opened:  1992 Owner:  Rafael Pena Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  3348 Washington St, Jamaica Plain, MA Photographed: November 13, 2021 This is the farthest-south independent grocer we're seeing on Washington Street, at the corner of Green Street where we saw Green Basket . A block north is Ruggiero's .

Stop & Shop Opened: ca. late 1990s Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  301 Centre St, Jamaica Plain, MA Photographed:  June 15, 2019 and July 12, 2019 Jamaica Plain has two large supermarkets, the Whole Foods just west of here and this Stop & Shop. While the Whole Foods opened up in what had previously been a longtime independent grocer, this Stop & Shop appears to have been a new-build store around the late 1990s (after 1996), though it may have replaced another store nearby. At around 40,000 square feet, it's smaller than most Stop & Shops but larger than the other grocers in the immediate area. This store was one of the latest Stop & Shops in Boston to get the recent remodels, which were completed here last spring . So although the store has been cosmetically updated since these 2019 pictures, the bones appear to be exactly the same. It looks like the renovation was largely decor. You enter to the...