Yeah, I guess I was thinking about ones that aren't there anymore (though yes, I did include Shaw's).
Star never had a presence in Worcester that I remember. Stop & Shop, you're right, was there. They had a large store at Webster Square at 50 Mill St. at Park Ave. That space has now been subdivided into smaller stores.
Big Y did not enter the area until much later.
An interesting evolution I just noticed while in the area yesterday is that the old Iandoli's (later Shaw's, I think) at Webster Square is now Bob's, a regional clothing store (formerly ragtag Bob's Surplus) that has come to occupy much larger locations in recent years. The Shaw's has moved into the Zayre space across the lot, which was, in its time, much larger than most supermarkets.
Other observations, if anyone's interested:
- Whitman's on Chandler Street is now the site of a Brooks Pharmacy, in the same building.
- Big D on Mill Street sits vacant, its characteristic bold paint scheme only barely visible anymore. Lights peek out from between the plywood over the front. This store was relocated by new owners Price Chopper to Cambridge Street a mile or so east.
- Cow's Farm, an independent on Park Ave., is now a strip mall, with a "Cow Farm" convenience store occupying one of the slots.
- The former Finast on Chandler at the corner of Mill Street, later Price Rite, is CVS as it has been for some years.
- The building which housed Economy Market, a small independent on Pleasant near Chandler, is, interestingly enough, the current corporate offices of Honey Farms, a local convenience store chain.
