The Market Report

Stop & Shop Opened: between 1995 and 2001 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  35 Washington St, Lynn, MA Photographed:  August 3, 2019 It's been over a year and a half that I've been posting Massachusetts stores (remember this very first MA post out in Lee?) and the truth is there's quite a bit of repetition here. I mentioned that on a Market Basket post here in Lynn. So really, you can take a glance at the outside of this store and pretty much get it immediately: it's a late 90s-build Stop & Shop, originally a Super Stop & Shop that opened with this decor package . Of course, what's interesting is any differences and variations either built into the store originally or that have happened over time. So let's check it out! Unfortunately, we'll see very little unusual about this store. Inside, it was most recently renovated around 2017, shortly before I took these pictures in 2019. It's not that diffe...

Stop & Compare Supermarket Opened: 2021 Owner:  Calvo and Ianotti families Previous Tenants:  Star Market (ca. mid-1960s-early 00s) > Shaw's (early 00s-2019) Cooperative:  none Location:  43 State St, Lynn, MA Photographed:  May 14, 2022 One of two Stop & Compare Supermarkets in Lynn is here at Lynn Marketplace, downtown and just a couple blocks north of the Price Rite I posted on Friday . It's around 25,000 square feet and located in about half of a former Star Market-turned-Shaw's that closed in 2019. When Shaw's closed, Stop & Compare extensively renovated the store, and while I haven't been inside (the picture above is just from the window of a train), we can see several pictures inside from Google Maps. You enter on the left side of the Shaw's storefront to produce in the front-left corner, and it looks like deli  and bakery are in the rest of the first aisle. Grocery aisles in the middle, meat on the back wall, and dairy/frozen on...

Price Rite Marketplace Opened:  ca. 2006 Owner:  Wakefern Food Corp. Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  395 Lynnway, Lynn, MA Photographed:  July 14, 2019 and August 3, 2019 At the southern edge of the city of Lynn is this Price Rite, a new-build store around 2006. It's in a small strip mall out on Lynnway just across from the Lynn Ferry Terminal. The Lynn Ferry is run by the MBTA and goes to and from downtown Boston. (Not bad, that you can ride from Lynn to Boston for $7 in about 40 minutes, which at rushhour is pretty good.) Price Rite is, of course, the discount supermarket branch of Wakefern Food, which primarily runs independently-owned ShopRite stores. There are no Price Rite trucks, so you'll see ShopRite trucks driving around Massachusetts -- a state with no ShopRites -- delivering to the state's many Price Rites. All of the Price Rites in Massachusetts are owned outright by Wakefern, whereas the majority of the ...