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Whole Foods Market - Boston, MA (Back Bay)

Whole Foods Market Opened: 2003 Owner:  Amazon Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop (opened early 1970s) > Bread & Circus (1995-2003) Cooperative:  none Location:  1065 Westland Ave, Boston, MA Photographed:  July 20, 2019 Supermarkets come in all shapes and sizes. Some are just a little more... unusual. And today we're going to see a round one! Well, to be accurate, it's actually a half-circle one. The roughly 20,000 square foot store opened in the early 1970s as a Stop & Shop, closing at some point before 1995. In 1995, gourmet food store chain Bread & Circus opened up shop, which had actually been owned by Whole Foods for three years at that time following Whole Foods' purchase of the Boston-area chain in 1992. In 2003, the Bread & Circus stores were rebranded Whole Foods . The Whole Foods we saw at the Charles River Plaza about two weeks ago was also a Stop & Shop that was slated to become a Bread & Circus, but it opened after Whol...
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Star Market - Boston, MA (Prudential)

Star Market Opened: 2015 Owner:  Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants:  Shaw's (2003-2015) Cooperative:  none Location:  53 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA Photographed:  July 21, 2019 and November 13, 2021 Welcome to the Prudential Center Star Market! This is the largest supermarket in the neighborhood, but it's still on the smaller side at around 40,000 square feet. It opened in 2003 as a Shaw's, replacing an older Star Market on Boylston Street about a block and a half north at 800 Boylston. And although that store was older and smaller, it wasn't even that old, having opened in 1993. This new-build location was a flagship Shaw's, and you can see more of the original store design on this page , and some other locations. The store is a triangle, with the rotunda you can see above at the corner of Ring Road and Huntington Avenue. The front-end lines the left side wall, to the left in the above picture (or seen below), with the grand aisle along the right-side wall...

SuperFresh - Woodland Park, NJ

SuperFresh Opened: September 12, 2025 Owner:  Teofilo de Jesus Previous Tenants:  A&P (1960s-early 00s) > assorted non-grocery tenants > A-Mart (planned, never opened) Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  1750 US-46, Woodland Park, NJ Photographed:  September 12, 2025 Welcome to the latest SuperFresh! This store is in Woodland Park, New Jersey, just southwest of Paterson (in fact Woodland Park was previously called West Paterson). The store is between 20,000 and 25,000 square feet, occupying part of a former A&P that moved next door in the early 00s. I visited the store twice while it was under construction, and you can see my past posts here and here . You can also read more about the A&P and see a picture of the newer A&P building, which has since been subdivided, at the first link! This store joins other SuperFresh locations in Clifton and Passaic under the same ownership, along with a Food Universe in Clifton  which these o...