The Market Report

Price Chopper Opened: 2010 Owner:  Northeast Grocery Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  731 Boston Tpk, Shrewsbury, MA Photographed:  October 23, 2021 A few days ago, we checked out the former Price Chopper of Shrewsbury, and I mentioned that in 2010, the store moved just east to a new-build location. It's funny that this store is about 64,000 square feet, nearly identical in size to both the Shaw's and Stop & Shop in town. But this store is the farthest east of those three, and also the highest-volume according to Placer.ai. This looks similar to the Webster Price Chopper on the outside (and East Stroudsburg , for that matter), but because Webster was built just a few years after this one, there's a different decor package on the inside. So this store very closely resembles the East Stroudsburg location, among others. Grand aisle is on the right side of the store, with the bagel/donut shop and Starbucks and a small cafe on the front wall. Prepar

Can you believe it's already been eight years? While I started taking pictures of supermarkets back in May of 2016, I started writing this blog on November 12, 2016. And here we are eight years later, over 2300 posts and nearly two million (!!!!) views! So thank you for reading and commenting and everything else. I'm so excited to keep going and show you all everything else I have in the archives (and to think about how quickly we're moving through this material geographically, a year ago we were in the Poconos of Pennsylvania ). By my estimate now, in another year, we'll roughly be in the northeastern suburbs of Boston -- close to done with Massachusetts, in other words. I hope you're all having fun because I sure am, and don't forget today's tour of the Stop & Shop in Shrewsbury !

Stop & Shop Open: before 2007 - 2024 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  Shaw's (?) Cooperative:  none Location:  539-571 Boston Tpk, Shrewsbury, MA Photographed:  October 23, 2021 This is an interesting one. Supermarket nerds like myself can tell something's unusual here. To the untrained eye, this 65,000 square foot Stop & Shop doesn't look like anything out of the ordinary, but notice the dark green accents across the storefront -- even on the window frames. Notice how different the store design is from their typical one for 90s stores . Here's what's interesting: this store appears to have been built as a Shaw's. And it looks like it didn't make it for all that long as a Shaw's, either. Incidentally, Stop & Shop just recently closed this store as part of their 2024 store closure announcement . (Don't believe me? Check out the exterior similarity to the Shelton, CT ShopRite , which was built in the 90s as a Shaw's and then b

Patel Brothers Farmers Market Opened: ca. 2012 Owner:  Mafat & Tulsi Patel Previous Tenants:  non-grocery tenants Cooperative:  none/Krasdale-supplied Location:  504 Boston Tpk, Shrewsbury, MA Photographed:  October 23, 2021 Shrewsbury and some of the other suburbs between Worcester and Boston have growing Indian populations, so it's no surprise that Indian grocers have opened up to serve that community. Here in Shrewsbury, Patel Brothers is the smaller of two Indian supermarkets, clocking in at around 14,000 square feet. The store opened around 2012, combining a few formerly separate storefronts (or so it looks to me). Inside, the interior is very typical of a Patel Brothers, with the produce department on the left side of the store taking up the first two and a half aisles. Five grocery aisles are on the right side of the store, with dairy in the second-to-last aisle and frozen in the last one. What I would consider to be the last aisle is here labeled aisle 1, with the firs