The Market Report

Stop & Shop Opened: late 1990s Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  65 Newport Ave, Quincy, MA Photographed:  August 4, 2019 and May 6, 2023 Given that Stop & Shop is based here in Quincy, it's fitting that the last store we're going to see in town is a Stop & Shop. There's another store in the city, too, just outside of downtown on Southern Artery . 2019 This is another multi-year store tour, so it's a combination of pictures from my 2019 visit and from 2023. This was the first Stop & Shop I visited with their latest decor package , and I was really impressed. It was a significant step up from what they'd been doing . The nearly 80,000 square foot store is a fairly typical (if slightly larger than average) late-90s Super Stop & Shop model, and it's not that different from the other Quincy location -- just slightly larger. 2023 The layout is also very similar to the Southern Artery store, with the gran...

C-Mart Supermarket Opened: ca. 2018 Owner:  Quxiang Lin Previous Tenants:  non-grocery tenants Cooperative:  none Location:  28 Hayward St, Quincy, MA Photographed:  August 4, 2019 Just next door to the 99 Ranch Market we saw last week, we've arrived at the C-Mart in Quincy. Although C-Mart reportedly had been attempting to open in Quincy since 2008 , their store opened about 10 years later, around 2018 when this 35,000 square foot former light industrial building opened to the public as a C-Mart supermarket. This store joined two locations in Boston's Chinatown, one of which has since closed. It seems that C-Mart has also previously had other locations in Boston , as well as other locations in other states, but as far as I can tell they're down to just this location and one in Boston. (In 2021, the Massachusetts attorney general cited the chain for failing to keep time records for employees and for failing to pay overtime.) This Quincy store is really nice, ...