The Market Report

Having seen the independent grocers of the area, let's check out some of the former grocery stores in the southern part of the city! A note on historical sources:  To get past stores in each location, I've consulted Worcester city directories going back to the 1910s. Here in the city, I'm drawing from  1916, 1922, 1927, 1931, 1937, 1943, 1959, 1952, 1957, 1962, 1969, 1973, 1979, 1985, 1991, 2000, 2009, and 2017.  Also of note: this is far from an exhaustive listing of all grocery stores that have been in this area, although I'll probably eventually post the full thing, this is just what I've been able to photograph. Reading the captions:  A caption such as the following...          |  John Smith (1926-1937) > Joe Jones (1955-1982) ...means that John Smith appears in the directories in 1926 and 1937, and Joe Jones appears in all directories I consulted between 1955 and 1982. That doesn't mean that John Smith opened up shop in 1926 and ...

Like we've been seeing with former grocers , Worcester has a lot of small independent grocers and corner stores and the like. We're going to take a look at a few of them in the southern part of the city, in the neighborhoods we've seen for the past few days! And because (especially in cities) I have a lot of these small stores that would be really quick posts, from now on I'm going to condense some of them into posts like this. A note on historical sources:  To get "past stores" in each location, I've consulted Worcester city directories going back to the 1910s. Here in the city, I'm drawing from  1916, 1922, 1927, 1931, 1937, 1943, 1959, 1952, 1957, 1962, 1969, 1973, 1979, 1985, 1991, 2000, 2009, and 2017.  Also of note: this is far from an exhaustive listing of all grocery stores that have been in this area, although I'll probably eventually post the full thing, this is just what I've been able to photograph. Reading the captions:  A caption ...

Price Chopper Opened: 1997 Previous Tenants:  Hodes Super Market (was open in 1975) > Big D Supermarkets (??-1995?) in neighboring building Location:  564 Southwest Cutoff, Quinsigamond Village, Worcester, MA Photographed:  October 12, 2019 It's time for our first official store tour here in Worcester this time around! We're starting in the far southeastern corner of the city, and you can get an idea on the map above -- this store is on route 20 below Quinsigamond Village. I don't know the store's history in too much detail, and that confusion is complicated by the fact that this store has had several addresses over the years. It's been listed as both Arnold Road in Auburn and Southwest Cutoff in Worcester, although it looks like the original supermarket in this location was constructed between 1960 and 1966 by Hodes, a local chain eventually acquired by Big D, at what's now 2 Washington Street in Auburn just next to this building. That building is roughly ...