Fitzgerald's General Store Opened: 1984 under current ownership; ca. 1850s previously; renamed 2024 Owner: Roman Potty Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 110 Southville Rd, Southborough, MA Photographed: March 18, 2022 Fitzgerald's is quite the store! It's a general store dating back to around the 1850s , still going strong as a convenience store today. Fortunately and unfortunately, the roughly 3,000 square foot store has been recently renovated and is today Cordaville's Market . It's situated at the Southborough train station on the Framingham-Worcester line, which dates back to the 1830s, so it's likely this location was chosen even over 150 years ago because of its proximity to the train station. (In case you couldn't tell, I took the above picture from a train window.) That's a fun way to end our look at the route 9 area (although, of course, we're about a mile and a half south of route 9 itself here), and tomorrow we'
Roche Bros. Opened: 2007 Owner: Michael Bozzuto Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 1100 Union St, Westborough, MA Photographed: October 23, 2021 Welcome to our first Roche Brothers! The chain, based in a Boston suburb, operates 20 stores in eastern Massachusetts under the Roche Brothers, Sudbury Farms, and Brothers Marketplace banners. Their stores tend to lean upscale, with Roche Brothers generally being large, full supermarkets, Brothers Marketplace the smaller-format gourmet-focused locations, and Sudbury Farms in-between. At least I think so -- I've never actually been to a Sudbury Farms. We'll see a few of their stores, which tend to be really nice and impeccably-run. A side note here: as of earlier this month, the Roche family has sold majority ownership in the chain to the owners of the Connecticut-based wholesaler Bozzuto's. At the time I visited this store (and the subsequent Roche Bros we'll see), they were still owned by the Roche famil