South Bay

Now if he'd been in the tomato section, it'd be more understandable

adamg — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:11:16 -0400

Third Decade reports:

While walking through the produce area of the South Bay Stop & Shop I saw a man in his late-30s to early-40s walk up to the avocados and make the sign of the Cross before picking one.

Bubba the bakery bandit bites bullet; pleads guilty

adamg — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:33:42 -0400

Alan "Bubba" Daughtry of Dorchester pleaded guilty last week to a string of robberies of bakeries, convenience stores and other small shops last year, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office announced.

Teen-agers charged with armed holdup at South Bay

adamg — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:38:23 -0500

Boston Police report arresting two Dorchester teens, 15 and 16, on charges they took a shopper's iPod at knifepoint outside the South Bay Stop & Shop around 2 p.m. yesterday.

Police say they found the pair at Columbia Road and Dorchester Avenue - and recovered the victim's iPod.

Dorchester's mall war zone

adamg — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:26:07 -0400

That would be the South Bay shopping center, which has gotten so bad that Jason reports he was forced to drive to Braintree to shop this past weekend:

... The parking lot is undergoing major renovations, and is currently a war zone. The traffic patterns at South Bay have always been chaotic, but adding random jersey barriers, loose blacktop, torn up roadways, heavy ground-moving equipment, clueless pedestrians with small children in carriages, and entitled Boston drivers, and it's a recipe for a sludgy disaster. ...