The Market Report

Super 88 Market Opened: 2007 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  188 Commercial St, Malden, MA Photographed:  July 26, 2019 We're kicking off our (very short) look at Malden with a tour of this supermarket just a bit south of downtown, and it's the second of two Super 88 Market locations still in business today. The local chain declared bankruptcy in 2009 , and since then has downsized a bit with just this location and the Allston one still operating. This store was planned back in 2004 but didn't come to fruition until its 2007 opening. The 30,000 square foot supermarket was actually a new-build by Super 88, and I don't believe there was previously another grocer on the property. You enter on the right side of the storefront to the produce department, with meat in the back-right corner. Dairy and other refrigerated foods line the back wall of the store, with seafood and frozen foods on the left side. The building -- like the...

Super 88 Market Opened: 2000 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  1 Brighton Ave, Allston, MA Photographed:  July 20, 2019 Car dealerships apparently make for a great supermarket building! Back in Brookline, we saw a Stop & Shop in a former Chevrolet dealer , and just a block east is another large car dealer-turned-supermarket, today's other post . This building is somewhat smaller than the Star Market, at a little under 40,000 square feet. Super 88 opened up here in 2000, building a supermarket in the back part of the car dealership and a food court in the front part of the space. I didn't tour the food court, but good news -- Eater Boston did an extensive tour back in 2015 . Obviously, things have changed since then, but it still gives you an idea of the setup. The supermarket's entrance and exit are on the side wall of the building facing the parking lot, and the supermarket is behind the food court in the very deep bu...

New York Marts Open: 2013-2022 Owner:  Long Deng Previous Tenants:  Super 88 Market > Thuận Đạt Supermarket Cooperative:  none Location:  733 Hancock St, Quincy, MA Photographed:  August 4, 2019 and May 6, 2023 I mentioned about a week ago that there had been a couple of store closures in Quincy between my 2019 visit and my 2023 visit. One of those stores was this one, a roughly 15,000 square foot New York Marts that opened in 2013 and closed a little under ten years later in 2022. Prior to New York Marts, a small chain of Chinese supermarkets, the space was occupied by Super 88 , another Chinese supermarket chain from the Boston area, then an independent called Thuận Đạt Supermarket, a Vietnamese store. The store's large seafood and meat departments lined the left side of the building, with registers across the front wall and produce in the middle. Grocery aisles and frozen/refrigerated foods were behind the produce department. I don't know for sure wh...