The Market Report

Wegmans Opened:  2014 Owner:  Wegman family Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  200 Boylston St, Chestnut Hill, MA Photographed:  August 2, 2019 Take a look at that clock tower... what does it say? Time for Chestnut Hill's other supermarket! (Trust me. It was there, it was just in really really small lettering.) Happy Monday and welcome back to Chestnut Hill. On Friday, we toured the impressive Star Market in Chestnut Hill , about six miles outside downtown Boston . Now it's time for a look at another relatively recently built store just down the street from the Star Market. This is one of a couple Wegmans locations in the Boston area, along with other locations in Burlington , Westwood (south of Boston), and Medford (north of Boston). The chain also has a location in Northborough , near Worcester, and previously operated an unusual store at the Natick Mall . This is also a bit of a nontraditional Wegmans, and is condensed to a smaller-tha...

Wegmans Open: 2018-2023 Owner:  Wegman family Previous Tenants:  JC Penney Cooperative:  none Location:  1245 Worcester St, Natick, MA Photographed: May 17, 2022 Welcome to the famed Natick Wegmans! This store made news when it opened in a former JC Penney department store in 2018, occupying over 130,000 square feet on two floors. The store contained multiple restaurants and food service outlets inside, some of which closed shortly after opening but others that continued on until the end. And yes, here, in a truly unusual situation for Wegmans, there was an end. The upstate New York-based chain tends to open stores at a rate several times that of their closure rate -- which is very  close to zero -- but this Natick location couldn't make it and closed in 2023 . It's a large location, and one located at the back of the Natick Mall where visibility was rather low. It was accessible to the mall on both levels (you can see that below), but Wegmans doesn't typical...