The Market Report

Original Grocery Tenant: A&P Address: 377 Cabot St, Beverly, MA Opened:  by 1951 Closed:  between 1979 and 1985 Later Tenants:  Medi-Mart (opened 1985) > Walgreens (open by 1994) > Brooks Drugstore (closed 2007) > Rite Aid (2007-2018) > Dollar Tree (opened 2021) Photographed:  May 20, 2025 Near downtown Beverly, and just east of one of the town's Stop & Shops , is this 20,000 square foot former supermarket. You can probably recognize it as a former A&P centennial store, as the facade today is mostly original. After A&P closed around the early 1980s, it became a Medi-Mart drugstore (owned by Stop & Shop) in 1985, then a Walgreens by 1994, then a Brooks Drugstore. Brooks would've installed the facade we see today, and closed by 2007. Rite Aid took over Brooks and occupied the space for 11 years, closing in 2018. Dollar Tree then opened in 2021. An interesting note about the A&P that originally occupied the building: it predated the...

Medi-Mart was admittedly a drugstore, not a supermarket, but this 1975 ad from an issue of the Daily Journal features the Stop & Shop-owned chain's Garwood location, located in the same strip mall as the Garwood Stop & Shop -- later Kings . In fact, the ad even proudly proclaims the store is "next to Stop & Shop"! As we can see, Medi-Mart sold a variety of products, from drugs to cigars, home goods to ice cream. I don't know much about Medi-Mart, though, since its life and death were all before my own. But tomorrow we're looking at an ad for a supermarket we're all very familiar with!