Original Stop & Shop Location

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

 I didn't realize until I saw this from the Herald that S&S started in Somerville.

"In its 94th year since the Rabinovitz family founded Economy Grocery Stores Co. in Somerville, the chain of 389 stores now known as Stop & Shop is refreshing its look."

Does anyone know where the original store was and/or where any of the other S&S stores were prior to the one they built at the old Somerville Lumber site?  

I find it odd they didn't have any Somerville locations for a number of years. 

Comments

[ron_newman]

A bank that was originally built as a Friendly's Ice Cream, according to someone who's been around longer than me. I forget whether I learned that on LJ or on the News blog.

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

So there was actually a S&S in Davis Square? Sounds like they were everywhere back in the day, which makes sense. I think the old CVS location in Ball Square was a Foodmaster once upon a time.

[gildersleeve.livejournal.com]

IIRC, there was a S&S roughly where The Burren/Family Dollar is (I think it was a Stop and Shop , then the first McDonald's, then The Burren.)

The original CVS was indeed a Foodmaster.