Phu Cuong Market - Dorchester, MA

Phú Cường Market
Opened: 2013

Owner: Khiet Tran

Previous Tenants: none

Cooperative: none

Location: 1188 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA

Photographed: July 27, 2019

The first of several Asian supermarkets we'll be seeing here in Boston is the Phú Cường Market, one of a handful of Vietnamese supermarkets in Dorchester. (We'll be seeing some Chinese supermarkets in Chinatown soon enough, too.)

This 20,000 square foot store was built from the ground up and opened in 2013; the property it's on previously held an industrial building. You enter in the middle of the side facing the parking lot, with produce in the back of the store, meat/seafood lining the right-side wall, dairy/refrigerated items in the front facing the street, and registers on the left-side wall against the parking lot.

There are two larger Vietnamese supermarkets here on Dorchester Avenue on Savin Hill, and this is the larger and newer one. There's also a couple smaller markets. Truong Thinh, the other Vietnamese supermarket around here, is six blocks south.

The seafood counter takes up most of the back-right side of the store, and it's very large with fish on ice and live fish and shellfish under that.

The grocery aisles are stacked high, and you can see the facility feels on the newer side even though it's not brand-new.

Refrigerated drinks and dairy on the outside of the last aisle. Notice the Krasdale brand nonfoods here, too, and although this store isn't a member of the Krasdale cooperative, they seem to get some nonfoods from Krasdale. Krasdale, based in Westchester County, NY, supplies a few thousand independent grocers, mostly smaller stores like bodegas and convenience stores but also several hundred supermarkets.

A look across the front end, with produce to the right in the above picture. That's all for Phú Cường, and on Monday we're off to Truong Thinh just south!