TOUR: Trucchi's Supermarkets - Taunton, MA (Tremont St.)

Trucchi's Supermarkets
Opened: 1967 in this location

Owner: James P. Trucchi

Previous Tenants: none

Cooperative: none

Location: 53 Tremont St, Taunton, MA

Photographed: October 13, 2024

This week, I posted pictures of the Trucchi's Supermarket in Middleborough, MA, where I haven't been. But I have been to the Trucchi's in Taunton -- well, one of two, and this is the one on the west side of town. At around 50,000 square feet, it's a bit larger than Middleborough. It's also a little larger than the roughly 40,000 square foot location across town. This store dates back to 1967, but it appears to have been expanded over time.

The interior is similar to Middleborough, although it looks a bit older. You enter on the left side to bakery in the front-left corner and produce on the left side. Dairy lines the back wall, with seafood and deli in the back-right corner. Meats line the right-side wall of the store.

You can of course tell that this store is not as upscale nor as new as the Middleborough location, but it's still quite nice and taken care of very well. It was extremely clean and the perimeter looked great.

And I love this light fixture above the produce department! (I don't believe it's a skylight since I can't find any evidence of it on the roof of the store from aerial photos.)

The fixtures are on the older side here, but looking good.

Nuts and bulk foods in the back-left corner -- this may have previously been a different department, but I don't know if it was. There aren't really any service departments missing from the store.

Dairy lines the back wall. As you see, it's in older cases with new doors.

All the fixtures here are older, which is especially noticeable here in frozen foods.

I love the look of the old-school frozen food aisle, though!

The light fixture on the ceiling returns for the seafood-deli area in the back-right corner of the store. As the layout is older, there's no grand aisle here, but instead the perishables departments line the perimeter.

The service departments are very attractive and well-appointed.

Meats line the last aisle in lower cases that butchers can stand behind. It's clear this store takes the meat department very seriously.

So while there's no service butcher counter, there is a large meat room and meats are cut to order.

Customer service and HABA (no pharmacy) are in the front-right corner.

And a look across the front-end. The light fixture panel again seen here reminds me of the panels Grand Union would put above the registers.

By all my observations, Trucchi's is an exceptionally well-run small chain. I enjoyed my visit to this store and maybe someday I'll return to visit the other one in town. But in the meantime, we're off about seven miles northwest for a small store to wrap up this area!