101 W Boylston St, West Boylston, MA

Original Grocery Tenant: Iandoli Super Markets
Address: 101 West Boylston St, West Boylston, MA

Opened: ca. 1980

Closed: by 1987

Later Tenants: subdivided

Photographed: November 8, 2020

West Boylston once had an IGA, a Big D (later Price Chopper), and an Iandoli supermarket, although their tenures didn't all align. The IGA was open roughly from the early 60s to the early 90s, the Big D/Price Chopper was open roughly from the late 80s to the mid 00s, and this store was open only within the 80s (possibly the late 70s too). It's about 26,000 square feet, and for whatever reason doesn't seem to have been acquired by Shaw's when the rest of the Iandoli chain was.

The space was subdivided, and half became a movie theater. Part or all of the space was also once a JC Penney, as we'll see. Also here in the Scarlet Brook Marketplace is a relatively small Walmart, of under 100,000 square feet.

These entrance and exit doors are likely original to the supermarket, as is the general foyer. I am not well enough versed in Iandoli's store design to know for sure how the building would've originally been set up.

We can't get much of a look inside, but we can see a little...

My guess is these interior features are left from the JC Penney days, not the supermarket, but I could be wrong.

Here's a look inside the movie theater's lobby, which recently closed. The space is now a gym.

Around back...

...the loading docks and such are largely intact, but there have been some changes.

My guess is this was the original loading dock area, and the railing is new.

Here's how we know the store was once a JC Penney...

And a look at the loading dock area...

That's all for this former supermarket, and tomorrow we're headed across the Wachusett Reservoir to a small store in Boylston!