The Market Report

Trường Thinh Supermarket Opened: 1999 Owner:  Joseph Pham Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  1305 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA Photographed:  July 27, 2019 Dorchester's Savin Hill neighborhood has the area's largest Vietnamese population (there are also Vietnamese communities in Springfield and Worcester's Main South neighborhood , along with a few other towns in Massachusetts). And there are two substantial Vietnamese supermarkets on Savin Hill -- Phu Cuong Market , which we toured on Friday, and Trường Thinh. This is the slightly smaller of the two, at 13,000 square feet, and the older as it's been in business since 1999, but it's still a well-appointed and pleasant store. You enter on the left side of the store to produce along with dairy and frozen foods. Seafood and meat line the back wall of the store, with grocery aisles to the right. As you can see, this store is a bit smaller than Phu Cuong but feels much smaller, especially in ...

Phú Cường Market Opened: 2013 Owner:  Khiet Tran Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  1188 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA Photographed:  July 27, 2019 The first of several Asian supermarkets we'll be seeing here in Boston is the Phú Cường Market, one of a handful of Vietnamese supermarkets in Dorchester. (We'll be seeing some Chinese supermarkets in Chinatown soon enough, too.) This 20,000 square foot store was built from the ground up and opened in 2013; the property it's on previously held an industrial building. You enter in the middle of the side facing the parking lot, with produce in the back of the store, meat/seafood lining the right-side wall, dairy/refrigerated items in the front facing the street, and registers on the left-side wall against the parking lot. There are two larger Vietnamese supermarkets here on Dorchester Avenue on Savin Hill, and this is the larger and newer one. There's also a couple smaller markets. Truong Thinh, th...