Whole Foods Market is in talks to buy or take over leases for half a dozen Johnnie’s Foodmaster locations in eastern Massachusetts, possibly bringing an end to one of the last urban family grocery chains, according to several real estate officials briefed on the deal.
Negotiations are still in the early stages, but Whole Foods wants to move into six of the 10 Johnnie’s Foodmaster sites in Arlington, Brookline, Charlestown, Melrose, South Weymouth, and on Beacon Street in Somerville.
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Yes! Melrose! PLEASE! We have to drive way out of our to get to the nearest Whole Foods in Woburn, a weekly run for us.
Things cost more but it's going in your stomach. Expose's of the food industry practices in the US make it a wise decision to go organioc.
Hope my Johnnies stays open...nice to be able to get fresh bakery items and meat or even a gallon of milk without paying through the nose.
That would be a sad switch - going from a modestly-priced supermarket that people of modest means can afford to shop at, to yet more upscale supermarkets. Certaily Brookline, Arlington and Somerville are well-served already.
Next up: Crosby's?