Whole Foods Market Opened: 2003 Owner: Amazon Previous Tenants: Purity Supreme (early 1950s-early 1990s) > Nature's Heartland (open by 1997, closed by 2000) > Bread & Circus (opened by 2000, converted to Whole Foods in 2003) Cooperative: none Location: 647 Washington St, Newtonville, MA Photographed: December 17, 2022 "Why does that one Whole Foods have a fork stuck in its roof?" That was the burning question a friend who grew up in Newton Highlands had for me when we started talking about supermarkets. Well, I don't know, but is it truly a fork if there's no handle? A Google search for " can you have a fork without a handle " brings up not a whole lot of helpful results. Google's generally useless AI overview says that yes, you can have a handleless fork for a "touch of elegance," and if you click on the source for that particular piece of wisdom, you will find yourself on a website with pictures of forklift trucks. Okay. S...
Marty's Opened: 1994 Owner: Martin Siegal Previous Tenants: Newtonville Wine Shop Cooperative: none Location: 675 Washington St, Newtonville, MA Photographed: December 17, 2022 Full disclosure: Marty's is not a supermarket. It's not even really a grocery store. The 12,000 square foot store is first and foremost a beautiful wine store. But the left side of the building also has a great selection of specialty foods, cheeses, and the like. And that alone warrants its inclusion here on The Market Report. If you enter and make a left, there are a few aisles of gourmet foods, and a counter for cheeses and prepared foods. It's a very high-end selection, and there's a lot of unique items here. This is only about a third of the sales floor, though, as the majority is dedicated to wine. And it's a large selection displayed very attractively. Overall, it's an upscale store. I don't drink, so every time I go into a liquor store I always feel out of place. Or e...