The Market Report

Stop & Shop Opened: 2008 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  415 Cooley St, Sixteen Acres, Springfield, MA Photographed:  August 23, 2024 Massachusetts is Stop & Shop's home state, but even within the state there are areas where the chain struggles. Even in their home territory of metro Boston, Market Basket beats Stop & Shop in market share. In the greater Springfield area and western Mass, Stop & Shop has several stores but lags behind market leader Big Y, which is based near Springfield. One of the three Stop & Shop stores within the city of Springfield is set to close this month -- and it's directly across the street from a large, well-run Big Y in a former A&P . The Big Y spans nearly 70,000 square feet, while this store is much smaller at about 54,000 square feet. This store was a ground-up build dating back to around 2008. It's a really nice facility but, kind of like today's other stop in...

Price Rite Marketplace of Springfield Opened:  ca. late 1990s Previous Tenants:  Mott's ShopRite (open bet. 1970 & 1976, closed ca. late 1990s) Location:  633 Boston Rd, Springfield, MA Photographed:  November 20, 2023 Welcome to our final Springfield store! As I've said, there's a lot in and around Springfield we're not seeing, but this is just the selection of stores I've been able to actually get to. Outside of the city about four miles from downtown, we have this roughly 40,000 square foot Price Rite. The building dates back to roughly the 1960s and is paired with a former department store. While I'm not sure about the early days here, we do know from Groceteria that this store was a Mott's ShopRite by 1976, which it presumably stayed as until Mott's went under in the late 1990s. Mott's ShopRite was the only ShopRite operator in Massachusetts, and had a run of a few decades in the state. By the time the chain went under, many of the stores h...

America's Food Basket Owner: Francisco Diaz Opened:  2015 Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop > CTown Supermarkets (1989-ca. 2010) > NSA Supermarkets (ca. 2010-2015) Cooperative:  America's Food Basket Location:  790 State St, Mason Square, Springfield, MA Photographed:  November 20, 2023 Happy Monday! On Friday, we saw a Save-A-Lot that took up around 18,000 square feet of a former A&P. Today is a very similar store -- a former 32,000 square foot Stop & Shop, built between 1960 and 1965, that in 1989 had a roughly 17,000 square foot CTown built in the center of it. There was also previously a Finast on this property that was demolished to make way for this building. Thanks to Groceteria for that history ! CTown became NSA around 2010, and the NSA switched over to America's Food Basket when the cooperative was rebranded in 2014-2015. The store takes up the center of the building, but because it's very deep and extends behind the other tenants in t...