763 Southbridge St, Auburn, MA

Original Grocery Tenant: Iandoli's Supermarket
Address: 763 Southbridge St, Auburn, MA

Opened: between 1960 and 1964

Closed: by 1987

Later Tenants: subdivided

Photographed: May 1, 2021 and April 16, 2022

We'll be spending a few days here in Auburn, a suburb directly outside Worcester to the south. Our first stop is maybe the least exciting of them all, a roughly 18,000 square foot former Iandoli's Supermarket. Iandoli's was a local chain dating back to the early 1920s when Albert Iandoli opened a grocery store on Grafton Hill in Worcester, and ultimately the chain grew to around 10 stores in and around Worcester before selling to Shaw's in 1987. This one didn't go to Shaw's, but another Iandoli store at the other end of Auburn did, which we'll be touring shortly.

Today, the space has been subdivided, and it doesn't look like another grocer occupied the space after Iandoli's closure. A Walmart Supercenter is about a mile southwest in Oxford and a local grocer is a quarter mile east, which we'll be touring tomorrow!