Market Basket Opened: 2009 Owner: DeMoulas family Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 170 Everett Ave, Chelsea, MA Photographed: July 22, 2019 I mentioned yesterday that it's somewhat unsual to see a 75,000 square foot, suburban supermarket downtown in a small New England city. Well, how about a massive, 135,000 square foot suburban supermarket right outside Chelsea's downtown? Chelsea is a city of about 40,000 to the north of Boston. In fact, here we're just across the harbor from Charlestown and East Boston . A couple blocks northwest of the main downtown area, the former Mystic Mall was demolished and replaced by this massive Market Basket in 2009. The mall dated back to the 1970s , and had an older and much smaller Market Basket in it. Inside, you'd hardly know the Market Basket was double the size of many of their locations because, well, it's basically identical. There's just more of it. But the basic setup, layout, decor, and offer...
Stop & Shop Opened: early 1990s Owner: Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 99 Charles St, Malden, MA Photographed: July 6, 2019 and January 10, 2025 Happy new year and welcome to the Malden Stop & Shop! This is our second and final stop here in Malden, after visiting Super 88 yesterday . This large, 75,000 square foot store is right downtown in Malden, and was constructed in the early 1990s. I don't know if it replaced an older Stop & Shop location in town. A note on this tour: the majority of these pictures come from a January 2025 visit, but some come from back in July 2019. Generally, the darker and blurrier ones are older, because of the much better cell-phone camera I have now, but it doesn't matter because not much has changed in the last six years. This store appears to have been renovated shortly before I visited in 2019, and going by pictures posted to Google Maps it was remodeled in early 2018 or so. Here...