Price Rite Marketplace Opened: 2010 Owner: PRRC Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: Wakefern Food Corp. Location: 870 River St, Hyde Park, MA Photographed: July 28, 2019 Wakefern, the cooperative behind ShopRite stores, is a powerhouse in New Jersey and the immediate surrounding area, but just a little bit beyond and their presence is very limited. Their first entry into the city of Boston proper was with this new-build, roughly 30,000 square foot Price Rite discount supermarket in 2010. It was renovated shortly before I visited in 2019, to the first generation of Price Rite Marketplace decor, then again shortly after I visited to the second generation. (I mentioned this double-renovation at one of the Worcester Price Rites , and it seems that a lot of the stores got all-new decor around 2016-17 and then again in 2018-19 or so. Consequently, what we're about to see is a bit rare, as this particular decor package didn't last much longer than a year or two i...
America's Food Basket Opened: 2013 Owner: Edwin Polanco Previous Tenants: Supreme Markets (1950s-early 1970s) > IGA Foodliner (1970s) > Farmers Warehouse Market (1970s-2013) Cooperative: America's Food Basket Location: 926 Cummins Hwy, Mattapan, MA Photographed: June 15, 2019 Welcome to Mattapan, home to a 20,000 square foot America's Food Basket supermarket and a much smaller, recently-closed nonprofit grocer called Daily Table. That's our other tour today, which you can see here ! Impressive mural aside, when we look at this America's Food Basket, we can tell the building is very old. As a matter of fact, it goes back to the 1950s when it was a location of the local chain Supreme Markets. In the early 1970s, it became an IGA Foodliner , then the Farmers Warehouse Market, which occupied the space until 2013 . The building is also a very unusual shape, since it's essentially a rectangle but the front wall is diagonal to accommodate the diagonal path ...