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Price Rite Marketplace - Lynn, MA

By Zachary
Price Rite Marketplace Opened:  ca. 2006 Owner:  Wakefern Food Corp. Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  395 Lynnway, Lynn, MA Photographed:  July 14, 2019 and August 3, 2019 At the southern edge of the city of Lynn is this Price Rite, a new-build store around 2006. It's in a small strip mall out on Lynnway just across from the Lynn Ferry Terminal. The Lynn Ferry is run by the MBTA and goes to and from downtown Boston. (Not bad, that you can ride from Lynn to Boston for $7 in about 40 minutes, which at rushhour is pretty good.) Price Rite is, of course, the discount supermarket branch of Wakefern Food, which primarily runs independently-owned ShopRite stores. There are no Price Rite trucks, so you'll see ShopRite trucks driving around Massachusetts -- a state with no ShopRites -- delivering to the state's many Price Rites. All of the Price Rites in Massachusetts are owned outright by Wakefern, whereas the majority of the ...
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Full Moon Market - Lynn, MA

By Zachary
Full Moon Market Open: 2005-2023 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  unknown Later Tenants:  Golden Lake Market (2023- ) Cooperative:  none Location:  63 Commercial St, Lynn, MA Photographed:  August 3, 2019 A couple blocks south of Lynn Common is this small grocer of about 4000 square feet. Full Moon Market, an Asian grocery store, was here from 2005 until late 2023, when it became Golden Lake Market . Like Soriya Market half a mile west, this store appears to specialize in Thai foods, and again, I believe the lettering on Golden Lake's awning in that picture is Thai. It doesn't appear much changed in the transition from Full Moon to Golden Lake, and you can see inside the store here . And tomorrow, for the final post of the week, it's time to look at the supermarket out on Lynnway -- the highway that runs between the city and its waterfront!
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Supreme Food - Lynn, MA

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Supreme Food Opened: 2014 Owner:  Gilcia Garcia Previous Tenants:  assorted non-grocery tenants > Perfect Supermarket Cooperative:  Krasdale Foods Location:  201 N Common St, Lynn, MA Photographed:  August 3, 2019 Yesterday I posted the Market Basket here in Lynn, the city's largest supermarket. And just four years before that store opened, this much smaller, independent grocer opened up shop. A video store called Video Craze until around 2010, 201 North Common Street became a supermarket in 2011 or 2012 when Perfect Supermarket opened up here. Perhaps customers didn't agree that the store was perfect or maybe they simply decided to rebrand, but Perfect closed or sold in 2014. And in that year, Supreme Food opened up in the spot. Note that this is not related to the chain Supremo Food Markets in NJ and PA, which uses the Supreme brand on some of their stores. Perfect Supermarket was affiliated with Krasdale Foods, and Supreme was briefly associated with Am...
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Market Basket - Lynn, MA

By Zachary
Market Basket Opened: 2017 Owner:  DeMoulas family Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  40 Federal St, Lynn, MA Photographed:  August 3, 2019 Okay, so you know how every Market Basket is basically the same ? Seriously, they are. The chain has used the same decor (which is barely even decor) for decades now, with the same basic setup although newer stores have expanded prepared foods, bakery, and butcher departments these days. Some are exceptional for one reason or another, such as the Chelsea one I posted not long ago that's over 130,000 square feet. There's also a small handful of stores that are abnormally small, such as the John Fitch Highway location in Fitchburg. Here in Lynn, the Market Basket was constructed right outside of downtown as a new-build in 2017. It's big, but not as sprawling as the Chelsea one, clocking in at around 90,000 square feet. Like Chelsea, though, there's not really much that has been added to this store -- it's...
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