Ink Block (Boston Herald) | 300 Harrison Avenue | South End

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However, Shaw's at the Pru does just fine with a garage. So could a hypothetical Market Basket on, say, Dot Ave near Broadway or Andrew.
 
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whighlander said:
Ron -- fortunately or unfortunately yes it does

the whole idea of the store is in the name -- people come out the front door with shopping carts (today's market basket) filled with groceries -- you push your cart a few tens to hundreds of feet and load your car

Market Basket is not a Trader Joes where one pops in for a single piece of Gorgonzola cheese or a Whole Foods where you -- just have to see the Arugula today (said with the appropriate clipped, sneering upper crust accent) -- its the place where Joe Sixpack and Marry Hamburger Helper shop for the family
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So, in your view, the entire store concept is tied tightly to the name of the store, but not so tightly that "Market Basket" actually means "market basket," which could easily be carried home or to the T. No, instead we will interpret "market basket" as "modern-day-market-basket=shopping-cart-which-requires-a-car." Stellar analysis.
 
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At the public hearing, the woman who presented the project said they had approached Whole Foods and they are not interested, (maybe they have plans near by). Then she slyly said it could be Trader Joe's, with a big smile on her face. This would be a great location for people walking home from work.

Would there be any value to having some hubway bikes with baskets for shopping bags or a type of basket that a person could own that can attach to the bike, maybe detach for bringing in the store?
 
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Ron Newman said:
However, Shaw's at the Pru does just fine with a garage. So could a hypothetical Market Basket on, say, Dot Ave near Broadway or Andrew.
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Keep Market Basket out of the city.
 
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why? they would provide useful competition for Shaw's and Stop & Shop. As long as it isn't surrounded by a sea of surface parking.
 
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Market Basket is the Walmart of supermarkets. Those cheap prices are just so unfair to competitors and how dare poor people have access to lower cost goods.


Would there be any value to having some hubway bikes with baskets for shopping bags or a type of basket that a person could own that can attach to the bike, maybe detach for bringing in the store?
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Hubway should have had rear carriers for such a purpose given that the front baskets are already too high for stability under load, lack a stabilizing spring to the front fork, and already have horrible trail in the frame geometry. I assume Alta omitted carriers over fear of liability if someone decide to use one for adult or child passengers.
 
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I love Market Basket. The best in the business.
 
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I would rather see a Hannaford's in Boston before a Market Basket. People need quality choices for their food shopping at lower prices and Market Basket does not provide that in my opinion. Low prices yes, but overall quality foods, no.

A Trader Joe's in the South End and South Boston would be perfect.
 
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TheRifleman said:
I love Market Basket. The best in the business.
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I grew up in Billerica where we only had (and still have) three grocery stores: Market Basket, Market Basket and Market Basket!

When another grocery store tried to open in town, the were able to muscle them via the town government. I have no love for the Demoulas family.
 
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^^^^
I just like them because they are extremely cheap. You get alot for your money at Market Basket.
 
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mass88 said:
I would rather see a Hannaford's in Boston before a Market Basket. People need quality choices for their food shopping at lower prices and Market Basket does not provide that in my opinion. Low prices yes, but overall quality foods, no.

A Trader Joe's in the South End and South Boston would be perfect.
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Agree with you on quality. I worked at a Market Basket for 5 years.. quality isn't as horrible as some people say, but their meats and produce are not stellar especially in terms of freshness.

Although I do think it would be huge for college students/post-college crowd, the Chelsea Market Basket is literally 5 min outside of the city. If we've decided that people drive to get to MB, go to Chelsea. That's what I do ;)
 
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TheRifleman said:
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I just like them because they are extremely cheap. You get alot for your money at Market Basket.
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Without getting political, they are the perfect example of capitalists who only like capitalism when it benefits them...for everyone else, it's capitalistic communism (A phrase I made up for companies that clame to love capitalism and then muscle their way into a monopoly...hence denying others their freedom of choice)
 
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I probably have a bit of a soft spot for them because they are truly local (Lowell), as opposed to the now European-owned Shaw's and Stop & Shop. And they have low prices, and (at least in Somerville) they draw their customers from every social and economic stratum of the city.
 
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Having grown up with Stop&Shop and Trucchi's as my options and later Shaw's I actually was under the impression that Market Basket was a step up in quality and also assumed in cost. Good to hear I was wrong on price, because they are finshing construction on a new one in Brockton right now.

It will be good to have competition, but both S&S and Shaw's are closer to me.
 
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bolehboleh said:
I grew up in Billerica where we only had (and still have) three grocery stores: Market Basket, Market Basket and Market Basket!
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I grew up in Burlington, and after Value King (a former A&P) closed in the late 80s, we had the option of Market Basket in Pinehurst, Billerica or Purity Supreme (later Stop & Shop) in Woburn. There was (and still is) a Market Basket at the Middlesex Mall on the Lexington Line, but that was miles from Burlington's population center. In 2005 a Shaw's opened up in Burlington Center and a Roche Brothers opened up at the Crossroads Plaza, on the Woburn line, which is a little closer and easily accessible to most of the town's population. My parents however live a quarter of a mile from the Shaw's and still go to the either the Billerica or Burlington Market Baskets (both 3.3 miles, as the crow flies) for their shopping.
 
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Boston needs a Hannaford's. I love the one in Saugus.
 
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I grew up in Fitchburg we had Victory Markets and Piggly Wiggly,Victory then became Market Basket,when I moved to Boston (Brighton) there was a Purity Surpreme,when I moved to Dorchester they had a PS in Fields Cor(we called it Provety Surpreme)it sucked,We also had Capitals which was a very good store,I now prefer Stop and Shop over Shaws/Star market,would really like to see a Trader Joes open up in Dot
 
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Good news:

http://news.bostonherald.com/busine..._former_herald_site/srvc=home&position=recent

City approves $200M project at former Herald site

By Greg Turner
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The Boston Redevelopment Authority has approved the $200 million reconstruction of the former Boston Herald site in the South End.National Development will transform the 6-acre site with 471 apartments, a supermarket, shops and restaurants in four buildings, including a partly reused Herald building.

The Newton company acquired the Herald site in 2007 and, with the BRA board’s approval, will kick the project into gear. The newspaper relocated earlier this year to 70 Fargo St. in the Seaport district.

The project was dubbed "Ink Block" but has been rebranded as "Ink Block South End" to highlight the site’s history and geography, according to Ted Tye, managing principal of Newton-based National Development,


"We also want to convey a sense of something new and something really happening in this area," Tye told BRA board members.

The block just south of Chinatown will have tall buildings on each end -- a nine-story residential building facing Herald Street and an eight-story one facing Traveler Street.

Residents would have access to a rooftop swimming pool and 411 parking spaces. A grocery tenant has not been identified.

The project will be constructed in two phases with completion set for 2016.

"The building is now vacant and awaiting development," Tye said. "It really presents an exciting opportunity to help reposition a neighborhood in transition."

The BRA said National Development will provide $400,000 for upgrades to Harrison Avenue and another $250,000 in community benefits.

-— gturner@bostonherald.com
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Hope the construction goes as smoothly as the approval process did. I don't want to jinx it, but after it's finished, someone should do a case study on why it was so painless. I guess, right time right place is probably the answer, but it'd be nice to know if there was something else going on.
 
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