Lambert's Rainbow Market Opened: ca. late 1960s Owner: Danny Lambert Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 777 Morrissey Blvd, Dorchester, MA Photographed: July 27, 2019 Just around the corner from the Stop & Shop we saw yesterday is this longtime produce market and supermarket, the 10,000 square foot Lambert's Rainbow Market. The store has a garden center out front, which you can see below, and then inside about half of the store is produce and service departments, with grocery aisles behind that. Lambert's dates back to the late 1960s, when this produce market opened. The Westwood location, around 10 miles southwest, came later. You can tour the Westwood location here . You can enter the supermarket through the greenhouse, which has plants and flowers for sale. The aisles inside run side to side, with the registers at the front. The bakery department is also in the front, with deli at the right side of the store and meat/seafood at the ...
Stop & Shop Opened: 1996 Owner: Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants: Elm Farm Food Co. (late 1950s-late 1960s) > Finast (late 1960s-1996) Cooperative: none Location: 545 Freeport St, Dorchester, MA Photographed: July 27, 2019 We continue our streak of smaller-than-average and nicer-than-average Stop & Shops in the southern part of Boston, much like the stores we've already seen in Hyde Park and Roslindale . This Stop & Shop -- which is just a quarter mile from the water (although, to be fair, it's the Neponset River, which is separated from the Massachusetts Bay by a peninsula) -- is only 45,000 square feet. It was built in the 1950s, originally an Elm Farms Food, later becoming a Finast by the late 60s and then a Stop & Shop in 1996 when Ahold acquired the chain. Around 2005, the store got a major renovation and expansion to its present size and layout, but it doesn't look like the building was actually demolished and replaced. It was...