The Market Report

Original Grocery Tenant: Food Farm Address: 268 Boston Tpk, Shrewsbury, MA Opened:  between 1955 and 1961 Closed:  between 1964 and 1975 Later Tenants:  Grace Wayside Furniture > Trippi's Uniforms Photographed:  May 17, 2022 Welcome to Trippi's Uniforms! Alright, I don't really care about uniform stores, but this 14,000 square foot store was built in the 1950s as a Food Farm supermarket , which appears to have been an independent. (That Community Advocate article suggests but doesn't say that the store was built in the early- to mid-1950s; city directories have it listed in 1961 but not 1955, but they could be delayed, of course.) By the 1970s, the store had become Grace Wayside Furniture , which you can see in a T&G historical photo here . And it's currently Trippi's Uniforms. But the bones of the building have remained essentially the same over the years. Two different supermarkets were once directly across Boston Turnpike, and we'll be seeing bot...

Key Food Marketplace Opened: 1990 Owner: Dan's Supreme Supermarkets Previous Tenants:  Food Farm (1959-1963) > Bohack (1963-1975) > Majors Supermarket (1977-1990) Cooperative: Key Food Stores Location: 450 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY Photographed: May 8, 2025 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted in January 2018, but was rewritten with new photos in June 2026. Now for the post! We're here to see a very old-school Key Food, which dates back to 1959 when it was a Food Farm supermarket (I don't really have any info on them, unfortunately). Just four years later, the space became a Bohack -- an NYC chain that's now long gone -- which closed in 1975. In 1977, it reopened as a Majors Supermarket owned by Dan's Supreme, and in 1990, Dan's Supreme left Majors and joined Key Food. This store is a bit under 20,000 square feet even after a couple expansions, though there's also a basement. Inside, it's seriously old-school with t...