Shaw's
Opened: 1987
Now it's time to tour the second supermarket in Clinton, after visiting the nearby Hannaford yesterday. This Shaw's dates back to 1987, when Shaw's acquired the store from Worcester-area chain Iandoli (along with multiple other locations in and around Worcester).
The store these days is around 55,000 square feet, about 20,000 square feet larger than Hannaford. This store is spacious and very pleasant, if not particularly exciting since it's a fairly typical Shaw's. Like the majority of Shaw's store base, it was renovated around 2018-2020. (In 2017, it still had the previous decor package.) While the store is still a bit bland decor and design-wise, it looks like from pictures the previous decor was pretty beige too.
We enter to a very wide grand aisle, with produce taking up most of the space in the middle. Customer service, floral, and bakery are in the front-left corner, with deli, seafood, and cheese on the left side. Because the grand aisle is very wide, it's not that deep, and there are a few short grocery aisles behind the grand aisle. Meats are on the rest of the back wall, with frozen and dairy on the right side. There's a spot that looks like it could've been a pharmacy in the front-right corner, but it looks like that space is actually taken up by a liquor store that faces the parking lot and isn't related to the supermarket.
In the last couple of years, Shaw's has seriously improved their perimeter. The bakery is top-notch these days, and the deli and seafood departments of the stores I've been to have been fully stocked with really nice-looking product.
Prepared foods and cold cuts are opposite the service counters, and in the photo below, produce is just to the right on the other side of the cold cut cases.
I also like the design of this store, with the large service counters lining the whole wall.
At the back of the grand aisle is an alcove off of the back wall with cheese, although there's no signage for that which seems strange.
Looking up towards the front wall of the store...
In the produce department, the tables and bins in the middle were replaced, but the refrigeration doesn't seem to have been. Instead, some refrigeration got new doors, similar to what we saw in the Worcester locations.
You can see below the grocery aisles behind the grand aisle. On the left side, where deli and seafood are, the store isn't quite as deep as it is here because those departments are in an expansion.
It looks like the flooring was replaced in this part of the store in the remodel, but I don't know if the layout was changed at all.
The grocery aisles are unremarkable, but clean and well-stocked.
The flooring was certainly not replaced along the back wall, as we can see the older-style flooring. You can also see that the refrigeration here was not replaced but painted.
Aisle 12!
Here's a look at the corner where the liquor store seems to be. I think part of this area is also used for online order staging.
Again, painted older fixtures here in frozen foods and a newly shined but older floor.
I think this decor would work better with new flooring throughout the store, but it's not unattractive at all.
Flooring was also replaced across the front-end...
...and we end our tour with a look at some of the beautiful pastries in the bakery department! Over the couple years since I visited this store, Shaw's has reshuffled their bakery program a bit, so I'm not sure that these exact products are still sold, but they still have some beautiful cinnamon rolls and apple fritters.
Opened: 1987
Owner: Albertsons Companies
Previous Tenants: Iandoli Super Markets (closed 1987)
Cooperative: none
Location: 1175 Main St, Clinton, MA
Photographed: October 2, 2021
Before we take a look at some of the smaller independent grocers in Clinton, we're going to visit a unique store about two and a half miles outside the town tomorrow!
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