The Market Report

Original Grocery Tenant: Park 'n Shop Address: 2 Main St, Blackstone, MA Opened:  unknown Closed:  2022 Later Tenants:  vacant Photographed:  September 4, 2021 No more Park 'n Shop for Blackstone! I don't know when this location opened, but the 22,500 square foot store was built around the late 1950s. It's in far southern Worcester County -- in fact, it's all of 400 feet from the Rhode Island border. The store closed in 2022 and is still vacant, although the owner of a nearby liquor store is looking to reopen it as a combination liquor/grocery store . I was disappointed to not be able to make it here before the store closed, but still good that we get a look at the building once Park 'n Shop closed! Park 'n Shop is preparing a new store in Mendon , around six and a half miles north, but it's not clear if those plans are still progressing. I can't find a location in Mendon where a new supermarket would go. We've also seen Park 'n Shop locat...

Park 'n Shop Owner: Kevin Meehan Opened:  1982 Cooperative:  none Location:  711 Southbridge St, Auburn, MA Photographed:  November 9, 2018; September 10, 2021; October 5, 2022; and February 1, 2023 It's time for another Park 'n Shop! We saw the Dudley location a while back, and now it's time to tour the Auburn location -- the one I've been much more familiar with, so buckle up, this is gonna be a long post. The store opened in 1982, and from the early 1960s through the late 70s, the space was a Finast. The 25,000 square foot store has some similarities to Dudley, but we'll see that a relatively recent renovation has changed it significantly. More on that to come. While I've been to this store many times, and enjoyed shopping here over the course of the five years I lived in Worcester, I've only photographed it four times. Let's go through each visit! 1. 2018 Tour We enter on the left side of the store to the grand aisle with produce on the left si...