The Market Report

Big Y Opened: 2016 Owner:  D'Amour family Previous Tenants:  Star Market (early 1990s-1999) > Hannaford (1999-2016) Cooperative:  none Location:  7 Medway Rd, Milford, MA Photographed:  August 24, 2025 This Big Y has been on my radar for actually a very long time. It's got a fascinating history, and you might be able to pick up on it if you look very carefully at the exterior. Well, at the very least you might be able to tell it's not a typical Big Y . But the 60,000 square foot store was constructed in the early 1990s as a Star Market, during the time that American Stores owned Star Market. Check out the similarity to this ACME on the outside, which was built when American Stores also owned ACME around the same time. Or see here for more detail. Now, it appears that when Sainsbury's -- a British chain that owned Shaw's -- bought Star Market in 1999, they had to divest a few stores. It appears they divested both this store and the Shaw's in Quincy to Hanna...

ALDI Opened: 2010 Owner:  ALDI Sud Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  225 E Main St, Milford, MA Photographed:  August 24, 2025 Visit number 3 of five here in Milford is the ALDI, to the northeast of downtown. This approximately 18,000 square foot store was built in 2010 on the site of a former car dealership, and is situated right between a Stop & Shop to the east and a Big Y to the west that we'll be seeing tomorrow. It's been nicely renovated with the latest ALDI decor, to the point that it almost feels like a much newer store than it is -- except for the flooring, which is the dead giveaway it originally had this decor package . Most ALDIs are exactly the same, so the layout here is very straightforward: produce and baked goods in the first aisle, dairy and cold cuts on the back wall, meat and frozen in the last aisle. This one seemed a bit cleaner and better organized than many ALDIs I go to. That might be because of just how many o...

Stop & Shop Opened: November 2017 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  Kmart Cooperative:  none Location:  126 Medway Rd, Milford, MA Photographed:  August 24, 2025 The Market Report arrives at the largest supermarket in Milford! This 70,000 square foot Stop & Shop opened in 2017, occupying most of an extensively-renovated former Kmart. Stop & Shop moved from a slightly smaller, 80s-era store (the octagonal kind ) about 2/3 of a mile northwest. Interestingly enough, the Home Goods and TJ Maxx that were previously next to the old Stop & Shop moved with Stop & Shop and now occupy the remainder of the former Kmart space. The former Stop & Shop has been remodeled but doesn't appear to have a new tenant yet. The new store is spacious -- it feels absolutely huge -- and still spots the wood-grain decor it had when it opened. It still feels like a very new store, although it's not operating at the full capacity it was when it opened. More ...