Price Rite Marketplace - Roxbury, MA

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 like the Save-A-Lot inside, although it's been brightened up a little and has some new fixtures.

But the bones of the store -- including the vast majority of the fixtures -- are left over from the Save-A-Lot times. Still, there wasn't a whole lot that needed to be changed.

The shelving is left over from Save-A-Lot, too.

The store also looks a lot like Madison Foods' Brockton and Roslindale locations. Dorchester, which is a bit newer (and opened as a Price Rite) has a different, more modern look.

Still, the store seems generally clean and well-maintained.

Still not a fan of the wood paneling decals added to the coffin cases, but it's not the worst thing. But why not just paint it black, like the freezer cases on the outside wall?

No in-store bakery, of course, but a selection of packaged baked goods in the front-left corner.

Looking towards the back wall of the store...

...and across the front-end.

That's about all for this Price Rite, and don't forget to check out Save-A-Lot here!

Tomorrow, we're headed east to a store on the border of Roxbury and Dorchester!