The Market Report

Stop & Shop Opened:  ca. late 1990s Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  First National / Finast (ca. 1950-late 1970s) > Flanagan's (late 1980s- ca. 1990s) Cooperative:  none Location:  713 E Broadway, Boston, MA Photographed:  June 29, 2019 Just across the street from yesterday's former A&P is this Stop & Shop -- one of the rather few, small-format street front stores left in the Stop & Shop fleet. (There are a handful of others, including Jersey City and Westfield , both of which were previously Mayfair Foodtowns.) This one was built around 1950 as a Finast, which closed in the late 1970s. I don't know what was here directly after Finast, but Flanagan's moved in from their location across the street by the end of the following decade. Around the 1990s, it became a Stop & Shop. The store is around 19,000 square feet. The entrance and exit are in the front-left corner, and the store is oriented to face the street with parking o...

Original Grocery Tenant:  A&P Address:  710 E Broadway, Boston, MA Opened:  late 1960s Closed:  early 1970s Later Tenants:  Flanagan's (late 1970s/early 1980s) > Brooks Pharmacy > Rite Aid > Walgreens Photographed:  June 29, 2019 This sure looks like a former supermarket! And, according to Groceteria , it is. The roughly 16,000 square foot building was constructed in the late 1960s as an A&P, which doesn't seem to have lasted long here, closing in the early 1970s. By the late 1970s, it was a location of the local chain Flanagan's , which it seems later moved across the street to what's now the Stop & Shop. We'll tour that store tomorrow. I don't know if there was any other supermarket here after Flanagan's, but it later became a Brooks Pharmacy, then a Rite Aid, and now a Walgreens. The store has a very flat pitched roof, and inside, part of the ceiling is sloped. The big circular air vents are another dead giveaway for an old store lik...

America's Food Basket Opened: 1997 Owner:  Edwin Polanco Previous Tenants:  Finast (late 1950s-ca. early 1980s) > Flanagan's (ca. 1980s-late 1990s) Cooperative:  America's Food Basket Location:  942 Hyde Park Ave, Hyde Park, MA Photographed:  June 8, 2019 Welcome to our final Hyde Park store! This building goes back to the 1950s when it was built as a Finast, which closed around the early 80s. Local chain Flanagan's moved in, occupying the space until the late 1990s. In 1997, a location of America's Food Basket moved in. The supermarket was originally about 17,000 square feet, and appears to have eventually been expanded to its present 20,000 square feet or so. It's also possible that one of the past supermarkets here was larger than AFB is, and the space next door currently occupied by CVS would've been part of the supermarket, too (that would bring the total to around 33,000 square feet). Inside, you can tell it's an old-school supermarket building...