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. The Gould Family also owns the liquor store operation inside of the former stores, all though the common consumer would not know it. [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 (Closed as a Big D in 1992) (Price Chopper closed this location shortly after buy out, currently an eyesore of a dead strip mall)
• Hudson (Gone)
• Marlborough (Currently a Price Chopper)
• Milford (Gone)
• Shrewsbury (Currently a Price Chopper)
  • 380 Maple Ave., Fairlawn Plaza
• Spencer(Original store burned down in 1997, reopened Currently a Price Chopper)
  • 131 Main St.
• Uxbridge (Now a Hannafords??)
• Webster
  • East Main Street (Was a Wonder Food Warehouse, Currently Price Chopper)
• Worcester
  • 29 Sunderland Rd.(Currently Price Chopper)
  • 195 Mill St. (Closed when Price Chopper moved to Main and Cambridge Streets)
  • Lincoln Plaza (Gone)
  • Lincoln St. (at Catherine St.)
• West Boylston (Was a Price Chopper, now abandoned when Price Chopper Moved to Mountain Road in Worcester)
• Woonsocket (Closed in 1992 Now a Price Rite)

[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.