Whole Foods Market Opened: 2003 Owner: Amazon Previous Tenants: Stop & Shop (opened early 1970s) > Bread & Circus (1995-2003) Cooperative: none Location: 1065 Westland Ave, Boston, MA Photographed: July 20, 2019 Supermarkets come in all shapes and sizes. Some are just a little more... unusual. And today we're going to see a round one! Well, to be accurate, it's actually a half-circle one. The roughly 20,000 square foot store opened in the early 1970s as a Stop & Shop, closing at some point before 1995. In 1995, gourmet food store chain Bread & Circus opened up shop, which had actually been owned by Whole Foods for three years at that time following Whole Foods' purchase of the Boston-area chain in 1992. In 2003, the Bread & Circus stores were rebranded Whole Foods . The Whole Foods we saw at the Charles River Plaza about two weeks ago was also a Stop & Shop that was slated to become a Bread & Circus, but it opened after Whol...