The Market Report

Stop & Shop Open: ca. 2002 - 2024 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  545 Lincoln St, Lincoln Plaza, Worcester, MA Photographed:  February 17, 2019 and November 2, 2019 Closing Date: by October 31, 2024 Another Worcester Stop & Shop coming our way! This store was just under 60,000 square feet and was constructed around the early 00s on the site of an older strip of stores built in the 1960s or so. This is Lincoln Plaza, one of the large (if not the largest perhaps) strip malls in Worcester, with Stop & Shop, Target, Lowe's, and other big-box retailers. Originally, there were two strips in Lincoln Plaza, one roughly where the Stop & Shop is all the way through the Michaels or so on that same strip; the other was across the parking lot facing it in an L-shape. That side had two levels for at least part of its length, since the west side of Lincoln Plaza is at a lower elevation than the east side where th...

ALDI Food Market Opened: between 2007 and 2011 Previous Tenants:  none Location:  500 Lincoln St, North Lincoln St/Lincoln Plaza, Worcester, MA Photographed:  February 17, 2019 and November 2, 2019 This, folks, is an ALDI. End of store tour. Have a great day. Okay, maybe I'll say a little more, even though ALDI famously sticks almost-religiously to their standard store format. It's an 18,000 square foot store, constructed between 2007 and 2011. Around 2018, it was renovated to the current decor package, and I photographed it the following year. Although you can see the decor is up-to-date, the flooring remains from the original decor package . In a slightly unusual setup (only slightly, though), produce is in the front left corner instead of the back with baked goods behind it. Dairy/meat/deli items are on the back wall and extend about halfway down the right side wall, with frozen foods in the front half of the right side. This is the only ALDI in the immediate area (th...

Original Grocery Tenant: Food World Warehouse Address: 490 Lincoln St, North Lincoln St/Lincoln Plaza, Worcester, MA Opened:  bet. 1979 and 1985 Closed:  bet. 1985 and 1991 Later Tenants:  Shaw's (open by 1991, closed by 2000) Photographed:  February 17, 2019 Quick look today at a former supermarket on Lincoln Street. This store of roughly 42,000 square feet opened between 1979 and 1985 (probably in the early 1980s, based on Historic Aerials) as a Food World Warehouse, one of the Iandoli brands , then likely was sold to Shaw's with the rest of the Iandoli chain in 1987-88. Shaw's closed by 2000. I'm not sure if Savers (a thrift store) opened immediately thereafter, or if there were any other tenants in between. Even though this Shaw's isn't here anymore, there are still two supermarkets in this area (plus a Target) -- let's tour the smaller one tomorrow!