Big D (supermarket)

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Big D (short for "Big Discount") was a chain of supermarkets in the Worcester, Massachusetts, USA area until the mid 1990s. The chain, numbering as many as twenty stores at one time, was held by The Wonder Market Companies, which sold the twelve remaining stores to the Rotterdam, New York-based Golub Corporation in 1995. Golub integrated them into its Price Chopper chain soon after. Wonder Market chairman Calvin C. Gould retained title to the land, however, on which the stores sat. [1].

Big D stores were noted for being among the first grocery stores in the region to allow payment by ATM card.

Locations included:

• Auburn
• Framingham(Price Chopper closed this location shortly after buy out)
• Hudson
• Marlborough
• Milford
• Shrewsbury
  • 380 Maple Ave., Fairlawn Plaza
• Spencer
  • 131 Main St.
• Uxbridge
• Webster
  • East Main Street (Was a Wonder Food Warehouse)
• Worcester
  • 29 Sunderland Rd.
  • 195 Mill St.
  • Lincoln Plaza
  • Lincoln St. (at Catherine St.)
• West Boylston
• Woonsocket

[edit] References

• Orenstein, David. "A new market for Price Chopper." The Times Union (Albany, NY), October 18, 1995. p. C15.
• Associated Press. "Cashless grocery shopping coming to New England." Marketing News, August 15, 1991. p. 7.