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Some crispy cremes in West Roxbury this morning

West Roxbury Patch reports on a one-alarm fire early this morning at the Dunkin' Donuts at 1630 VFW Parkway (the one near where Savers used to be, not the one by Spring Street).

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Wait, Savers is gone?

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Because I can now refer to everything by what it used to be!

Yep, Savers is gone from that location - it just opened up a larger store up the road a bit where the Stop & Shop used to be (the one in West Roxbury, that is, not the one that used to be where Dick's now is - you know, across the parkway from where the IHOP used to be, just past where the Chinese restaurant used to be).

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I miss them. Good food and nice people and they made a fine Singapore Sling. They didn't last long once they lost the liquor license.

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It was Heartland, or Purity Supreme to some, but it wasn't ever Stop and Shop. As far as I remember, anyway...

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If so, at some point, yeah, it became a Stop & Shop and stayed that way until they moved the Dedham one that used to be where Dick's is now into the even mega-ier new market a bit closer to where Fontaine's used to be. Then they closed it, and it was where LA Fitness used to have plans to be.

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Bubbles is still there, no? Was as of a few months ago, anyway. But yeah, we're talking about the same place. I apologize for the incorrect correction, if it was indeed S&S. Totally have no memory of that.

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heh I haven't heard someone reference "Purity Supreme" in a looong time. awful awful concept for a grocery store..

And I don't even need to know that store in particular to know yes it was a Stop & Shop.

When Stop & Shop was bought by Ahold in 1996, Ahold merged S&S, Heartland/Purity (which it already owned), Finast, and its operations in the Maryland area (as Giant) into 2 units.

Northeast - Stop & Shop (CT, MA, RI)
Mid-Atlantic - Giant (PA, MD, DC, VA)

(NYC has had S&S off and on)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_%26_Shop

Yep I'm a grocery geek.

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Adam's correct, as cybah and google have have shown me. Mea maxima culpa. Don't know why I continue to trust my memory, when it consistently drops the ball on issues like this...

However, slight face-saving on the fact that Bubbles is still there and still in business. Of course, the only reason Adam mentioned Bubbles was to show me that I was incorrect, so it was a forced error of sorts on his part.

(I thought about adding that the DD is where Arby's used to be, but I think I've done enough damage here already.)

For punishment, as the old graffiti on the back of the building said, I shall grab myself a cup of Poison T, and Suck It Down.

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Shows you what I know.

Oh, yeah, Arby's, how could I forget that? It was back in the day, when the Burger King used to have this awesome outdoor kid's playplace, with this two-story-high slide.

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