The Market Report

And with that, we are done with Roslindale and West Roxbury and we're moving right along! If you didn't get to see all of the stores in this area, here's a map of the area and the stores we saw. Coming Up Next Perhaps the geographically largest Boston neighborhood is Dorchester, which tends to be a little more urban than the neighborhoods to its west. It has a lot of sub-communities, and small business districts that form their own neighborhoods like Ashmont, Neponset, Grove Hall, Upham's Corner, and others. But they together form Dorchester in the southeastern part of the city. Dorchester is one of the lower-income neighborhoods of Boston, and has several immigrant communities including from Vietnam, the Caribbean, and Latin America. As such, there's a lot of diversity in the supermarkets, and we'll see quite a few Asian supermarkets in the eastern part, Latin stores in the northwestern section, and an interesting mix of mainstream supermarkets throughout. W...

Original Grocery Tenant: Stop & Shop Address: 1230 VFW Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA Opened:  1960s Closed:  between 2002 and 2011 Later Tenants:  Savers Photographed:  July 4, 2019 Just around the corner from the Star Market we saw last week in West Roxbury is this Savers, a thrift store that opened around 2010. It took the spot of a former Stop & Shop supermarket, and it actually has quite a few remnants left. You can't see it from the facade, but the building actually is pitched-roof, or at least the center part is. I'm not totally sure how much of the building Stop & Shop took up -- it's a small strip mall, and I believe Savers' footprint is smaller than the supermarket's was -- but my best estimate was that, through expansions, the original 14,000 square foot store became around 48,000 square feet by the time of its closure in the mid- to late-00s (the most specific I can get is between 2002 and 2011). Some shopping carts that I have to assume remain fr...

Amazon Fresh Opened: November 7, 2024 Owner:  Amazon Previous Tenants:  Pathmark > Fairway Market Cooperative:  none Location:  1510 US-46, Woodland Park, NJ Photographed:  June 18, 2025 Amazon Fresh has lowered its prices! Their pricing strategy has been... confusing at best , but in the last few weeks and months Amazon Fresh has introduced a new ad campaign touting the new lower prices. And yes, they are actually much, much lower. I didn't do a full price comparison -- I took only a quick walk through the store -- but several staple items were quite low. A two-pound box of strawberries caught my attention at $3.79 (not on sale, compared to $5.99 at ShopRite across the street ). Signage is up inside the store and on the storefront advertising the new lower prices in a very easy-to-read red, and a matching graphic is used for Amazon Saver products, such as these on an endcap. Now here's an interesting comparison. Organic Valley lactose free milk is not a pro...

ShopRite Opened:  1970s in this location Owner:  Chuck Infusino Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  171 Browertown Rd, Little Falls, NJ Photographed:  June 18, 2025 Welcome back to the Little Falls ShopRite! This is one of the few ShopRites left that's a single-store member, so the owners of this store don't own any other locations. And it's a pretty great store, if suffering from a weird layout due to several generations of expansions and remodels, and an even worse parking lot for the same reason. But since my last visit , the store has seen yet another remodel if only a small cosmetic one. The entrance on the left side of the store takes you into the bakery and produce departments. The specialty cheese department was also previously here, but it's been moved to the deli area on the other side of the store. As you enter the main supermarket, pharmacy is in the front-left corner, with HABA in the first few aisles. Meat and ...

Subzi Mandi Farmers Market Opened: March 14, 2025 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Filstop Cooperative:  none Location:  1006 US-46, Clifton, NJ Photographed:  June 18, 2025 Clifton, New Jersey has just gotten its newest Indian supermarket! There's a smaller store downtown, but here on route 46, Subzi Mandi Farmers Market has opened in a 16,000 square foot store previously home to Filstop , a Filipino supermarket. It's just next door from a former ACME . Subzi Mandi has extensively renovated the supermarket with a brand-new interior, including all-new fixtures and a new decor package. Produce is in the front-right corner, with dairy in the rest of the first aisle. Frozen foods are on the back wall and continuing down the last aisle, with hot food and bakery in the front-left corner. Subzi Mandi has about a half-dozen locations in New Jersey and New York, and a handful in Texas. This is a very attractive store, and serves a growing Indian community in this are...