Price Rite Marketplace Opened: 2020 Owner: Todd Slawsby / Madison Foods Previous Tenants: Save-A-Lot (converted 2020) Cooperative: Wakefern Food Corp. Location: 650 American Legion Hwy, Roslindale, MA Photographed: May 20, 2022 Beginning in 2020, Save-A-Lot underwent a reorganization. It switched the chain from a retailer with some locations franchised to exclusively a wholesaler with all stores franchised . During that transition, a lot of stores were closed or sold , leading to a much more significant variation in Save-A-Lot stores. Others left Save-A-Lot entirely but kept their stores, just under a new name. That's what happened with the Save-A-Lot stores here in Boston, all three of which transitioned to Price Rite in 2020. (We also saw that in Brockton , as all four stores share an owner.) Madison Foods joined the Wakefern Food cooperative in 2020, a cooperative best known for its ShopRite stores . (In the Save-A-Lot franchise model, independent own...
Save-A-Lot Open: before 1992 - 2020 Owner: Todd Slawsby / Madison Foods Previous Tenants: unknown Cooperative: none Location: 650 American Legion Hwy, Roslindale, MA Photographed: July 28, 2019 There's a lot for us to see at the corner of American Legion Highway and Canterbury Street in Roslindale. We begin with this Save-A-Lot, which has been in business since at least the early 90s but no earlier than 1981, and which in 2020 switched to Price Rite when owner Madison Foods left Save-A-Lot and joined the Wakefern Food cooperative (just like in Brockton ). While it's hard to tell for sure, my best guess is that this Save-A-Lot carved about 25-30,000 square feet out of a former department store. In fact, this strip mall originally had a supermarket at the other end -- an A&P approximately where these stores are today -- from the late 50s through about 1980. As you can see, the store setup inside is very similar to Brockton, although in these pictur...