The Market Report

Shaw's Opened: ca. early 1980s Owner:  Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  300 New State Hwy, Raynham, MA Photographed: October 13, 2024 Welcome back to Raynham! Remember being here before? We saw the Stop & Shop in town a while ago shortly before it closed, and its most direct competition was this Shaw's located just down the street. At 62,000 square feet, this store is almost exactly the same size as the now-closed Stop & Shop, and although it's a bit older, it's more recently renovated. You enter on the right side to the grand aisle, with produce in the front-right corner. Deli and prepared foods are in the back-right corner, and service meat and seafood along with the cheese department are on the back wall. Meat and dairy line the back wall, with the rest of dairy and frozen on the left side. The bakery is in the front-left corner. A notable difference between this store and the closed Stop & Shop: this one ...

Stop & Shop Opened: between 1996 and 2001 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  36 New State Hwy, Raynham, MA Photographed:  October 13, 2024 Closing Date: October 31, 2024 This weekend is going to be a packed weekend! I'm already posting through the weekend with a look at former grocers of northeastern Worcester , and we're adding to that a bunch of Stop & Shop and other stores today and tomorrow. This Raynham location is a last-minute addition to the collection of closing Stop & Shop locations we're seeing, as I was just here last weekend. The store measures around 64,000 square feet and was constructed as a new-build between 1996 and 2001. I'm not sure if it replaced an older store nearby. It appears to have received a minor renovation around 2005-2008, and it's unusual to see one of these gray-siding exterior stores with the Taste & Time decor inside. Those built with this decor package looked like this...