Beacon Street’s Retail Death Row at the St. Mary Street T-stop
The new grocery Johnnie’s Fresh Market, which recently replaced a defunct healthy-food store, is quite appealing, with a nice range of products and competitive prices (gallon of milk: $2.99). The store is located just west of popular liquor store The Wine Press at 1024 Beacon Street, which unfortunately marks the beginning of Retail Death Row at the St. Mary T-stop. Seemingly everything west of The Wine Press is in a perpetual struggle for survival, while everything east of it (think Dunkin Donuts, Chef Chang, O’Leary’s etc) seems to be doing fine. I really hope Johnnie’s makes it.
One establishment that didn’t make was of course the Ritz Camera store at the far end of the block. As I walked by there earlier tonight a number of Chinese workers (I hesitate to call them Chinese-Americans and I’m quite confident a visit from ICE would have been most inconvenient) were busy getting the space ready for the next vic…store.
