Snapshot: Big Y World Class Market - Palmer, MA

Big Y World Class Market
Owner: D'Amour family

Opened: late 1980s

Previous Tenants: none

Location: 1180 Thorndike St, Palmer, MA

Photographed: March 13, 2022

Today's snapshot is the supermarket here in Palmer, which is a roughly 52,000 square foot Big Y dating back to the late 1980s (by historic aerial photos we can see that the lot was cleared in 1985 but no construction had begun yet; the store was built and open by the next image in 1997). There's an Ocean State Job Lot, a Rhode Island-based chain of discount stores similar to Big Lots or Ollie's Bargain Outlet, across the parking lot from this supermarket, and that may have originally been a department store since I doubt Ocean State Job Lot built the store originally back in the 80s.

Tomorrow is another Big Y, although it's an older one in a small town on our way east towards Worcester!