Trucchi's Supermarkets
Like yesterday's post out in Provincetown, I haven't been to this store, and these pictures come to us courtesy of contributor Lucas F.
Our tour begins with the bank in the front-right corner, with the produce department on the right side of the store. Popcorn (like Lees Market!) is in an island in the produce department, with bakery, deli, and seafood at the back of the grand aisle and a cafe at the front. Meat lines the rest of the back wall with dairy and frozen on the left side.
In the Enterprise article linked above, the owner James Trucchi notes that the wooden beams above the produce department are original to the store, but hidden above a drop ceiling for at least some of Stop & Shop's time here.
All indications suggest this is a beautiful store, and taken care of very well.
Cut fruit, cheese, nuts, and the like are at the back of the grand aisle, with bakery and deli on the outside wall.
The service deli and seafood counters are at the back of the grand aisle, with meat to the left of that.
Since I don't know the store's background and am not particularly familiar with the layout Stop & Shop would've had here, I don't know whether the layout is more or less the same, but Trucchi's extensively remodeled the space. You can read more about it (and see pictures!) on their website here and here.
Incidentally, the store's name is pronounced like "true-key." They previously used the slogan "The True-Key to Savings," but they no longer do.
Here's a look across the back wall. You can see in the construction photos that the ceiling is roughly the same, but everything else appears to have been new in 2012.
Butcher window on the back wall.
I'm not completely sure of the layout on the left side, but dairy and frozen are on the left side of the store.
Interesting milk cases. They have two all-glass (or Plexiglass or something) doors with handles in the middle, but no trim on the doors.
Opened: 2012
Owner: James P. Trucchi
Previous Tenants: Stop & Shop
Cooperative: none
Location: 438 W Grove St, Middleborough, MA
Photographed: August 2021
Contributor: Lucas F.
About 15 miles inland from Plymouth is the small town of Middleborough, home to a location of the local Trucchi's chain of stores. Trucchi's has six stores in this region, and isn't a member of a cooperative but uses Best Yet from C&S. A Stop & Shop previously operating in this location (I'm not sure if they were the original tenant) closed in 2011, and the following year, Trucchi's opened up in the 45,000 square foot space after extensive renovations.
The cafe is on the front wall, closed for the coronavirus at the time of Lucas's visit.
And one shot of the front-end, looking towards dairy/frozen on the other side. Lucas reports that he really liked Trucchi's, and so do I. Although I haven't been to this one, I've been to one of the other locations, which we'll see shortly. In the meantime, tomorrow we're headed around five miles west to check out a Shaw's!
I love that the owner mentioned the wood beams in the article as a selling point! The décor over the popcorn counter is cool, too.
ReplyDeleteOr even just the fact that there IS a popcorn counter. Perhaps that's a MA thing (noting that many of the smaller stores seem to carry it, sometimes specifically their label, other times not)?
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