The Market Report

Stop & Shop Opened: early 1990s Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  99 Charles St, Malden, MA Photographed:  July 6, 2019 and January 10, 2025 Happy new year and welcome to the Malden Stop & Shop! This is our second and final stop here in Malden, after visiting Super 88 yesterday . This large, 75,000 square foot store is right downtown in Malden, and was constructed in the early 1990s. I don't know if it replaced an older Stop & Shop location in town. A note on this tour: the majority of these pictures come from a January 2025 visit, but some come from back in July 2019. Generally, the darker and blurrier ones are older, because of the much better cell-phone camera I have now, but it doesn't matter because not much has changed in the last six years. This store appears to have been renovated shortly before I visited in 2019, and going by pictures posted to Google Maps it was remodeled in early 2018 or so. Here...

Super 88 Market Opened: 2007 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  188 Commercial St, Malden, MA Photographed:  July 26, 2019 We're kicking off our (very short) look at Malden with a tour of this supermarket just a bit south of downtown, and it's the second of two Super 88 Market locations still in business today. The local chain declared bankruptcy in 2009 , and since then has downsized a bit with just this location and the Allston one still operating. This store was planned back in 2004 but didn't come to fruition until its 2007 opening. The 30,000 square foot supermarket was actually a new-build by Super 88, and I don't believe there was previously another grocer on the property. You enter on the right side of the storefront to the produce department, with meat in the back-right corner. Dairy and other refrigerated foods line the back wall of the store, with seafood and frozen foods on the left side. The building -- like the...