Supreme Food
Opened: 2014
Yesterday I posted the Market Basket here in Lynn, the city's largest supermarket. And just four years before that store opened, this much smaller, independent grocer opened up shop. A video store called Video Craze until around 2010, 201 North Common Street became a supermarket in 2011 or 2012 when Perfect Supermarket opened up here. Perhaps customers didn't agree that the store was perfect or maybe they simply decided to rebrand, but Perfect closed or sold in 2014. And in that year, Supreme Food opened up in the spot. Note that this is not related to the chain Supremo Food Markets in NJ and PA, which uses the Supreme brand on some of their stores.
Perfect Supermarket was affiliated with Krasdale Foods, and Supreme was briefly associated with America's Food Basket. By the time I visited in 2019, they had switched back to Krasdale.
The store is small -- around 12,000 square feet, so just a fraction of the size of the 90,000 square foot Market Basket -- but is a full supermarket, with four aisles total. Deli/bakery are in the front-right corner, with produce in the front half of the first aisle and dairy at the back. Aisles 3 and 4 are longer than 1 and 2, so meats are in the back half of aisle 3, then frozen foods and single-serve beverages fill out the rest of the perimeter on the left side.
It looks like many of the fixtures are older -- probably secondhand when Perfect opened in 2011 or so -- but most of the refrigerators have more recently had doors added to the fronts. You can see that above and in the meat department below...
The selection angles towards Latin and Caribbean foods here, representing those large communities in Lynn. There's a couple other stores with similar product offerings in town.
The main entrance is at the front, facing Common Street (which runs along the Lynn Common, a common being a green area in the center of many New England towns originally a public land used for collective livestock grazing). There's also an entrance and exit to the parking lot in the back of the store, which has its own few registers.
It's possible that this store is owned by the same people as Worcester's Plaza Supermarket. I've only been to this store once, but I've seen a van at Plaza in Worcester with the address of this store several times in the last year or so. Then again, it doesn't have this store's logo or name, so it's possible Plaza bought a van from Supreme and didn't bother to remove the address.
The shelving was probably new when Perfect opened, but some of the refrigeration definitely wasn't...
...such as these beverage cases in the last aisle with Shaw's seafood signage stuck to them. (Plaza also has secondhand seafood cases, from a Price Rite.)
Frozen foods are also in aisle 1.
And a look at the registers at the front of the store, with deli/bakery visible in the left side corner above.
A look at the rear entrance of the store facing the parking lot in the back. There's also signage out on Western Avenue, which is a pretty busy thoroughfare running behind the store.
Owner: Gilcia Garcia
Previous Tenants: assorted non-grocery tenants > Perfect Supermarket
Cooperative: Krasdale Foods
Location: 201 N Common St, Lynn, MA
Photographed: August 3, 2019
And that wraps up our tour of Supreme Food! Tomorrow's post will be a small grocer a couple blocks south of the common. Come back to check it out!
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