268 Boston Tpk, Shrewsbury, MA

Original Grocery Tenant: Food Farm

Address: 268 Boston Tpk, Shrewsbury, MA

Opened: between 1955 and 1961

Closed: between 1964 and 1975

Later Tenants: Grace Wayside Furniture > Trippi's Uniforms

Photographed: May 17, 2022

Welcome to Trippi's Uniforms! Alright, I don't really care about uniform stores, but this 14,000 square foot store was built in the 1950s as a Food Farm supermarket, which appears to have been an independent. (That Community Advocate article suggests but doesn't say that the store was built in the early- to mid-1950s; city directories have it listed in 1961 but not 1955, but they could be delayed, of course.)

By the 1970s, the store had become Grace Wayside Furniture, which you can see in a T&G historical photo here. And it's currently Trippi's Uniforms. But the bones of the building have remained essentially the same over the years. Two different supermarkets were once directly across Boston Turnpike, and we'll be seeing both tomorrow!