Deirdre Cassidy spotted these live 'n' kickin' turkeys at the Roche Bros. in West Roxbury this morning.
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By adamg - 7/23/17 - 1:17 pm
You can't beat their meat. Rendering from Roche Bros.
Roche Bros. has begun a redo of its Centre Street store to make it more like its trendier Downtown Crossing store - with more prepared-food and seafood options and a floral area right off the main entrance, rather than a few rows in.
Already, the bottle and can return has been temporarily moved outside and the bakery, flowers and customer service moved to temporary areas to make way for the renovations: Read more.
By adamg - 6/11/17 - 4:59 pm
They put out the Boston Latin Academy and Boston Latin School graduation balloons (they had a lot more BLS balloons up).
By adamg - 7/13/16 - 12:46 pm
Not long before one photographer was capturing the bus-bus-bus at one end of Centre Street yesterday, another photographer was capturing this sign taped to a vehicle parked at the other end of Centre, in the Roche Bros. parking lot.
By adamg - 4/21/16 - 12:35 pm
Roche Bros., which already sells beer and wine at its Westwood and Downtown Crossing stores, wants to offer alcohol at its West Roxbury store as well - within eyesight of Macy's Wine and Liquors on Centre Street. Read more.
By adamg - 3/11/16 - 6:57 am
Daniel Guzman takes note of some new signs at the West Roxbury Roche Bros.
By adamg - 11/29/15 - 5:18 pm
The West Roxbury Roche Bros. decided post-Thanksgiving shoppers needed ready access to squashes larger than their heads yesterday.
By adamg - 11/5/15 - 3:53 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Roche Bros. a packie license for its new Downtown Crossing store.
At a hearing yesterday, Roche Bros. President Gary Pfeil told the board that the chain held a number of focus groups with current downtown residents and workers and discovered that people enjoying life in the heart of the city have a different way of entertaining guests: They're more likely to have parties with cocktails and appetizers than sit-down dinners. Read more.
By adamg - 10/29/15 - 6:03 pm
The new Roche Bros. in the old Filene's Basement goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week to request a license to sell adult libations along with its prepared meals and groceries.
The board's hearings begin at 10 a.m. in its eighth-floor hearing room in City Hall.
By adamg - 4/29/15 - 4:14 pm
Dan O'Brien thought of Disneyworld when he saw the line of people waiting to get into the Downtown Crossing Roche Bros. on its opening day today.
The store is also accessible via the subway stop.
By adamg - 4/24/15 - 11:29 am
Roche Bros. reports its new Downtown Crossing store, opening next Wednesday, will have entrances/exits onto the concourse of the Downtown Crossing T stop.
By adamg - 4/6/15 - 1:56 pm
The Boston Public Improvement Commission will hold a hearing April 16 on the supermarket chain's request to allow outdoor seating outside its new store in the old Filene's building on Summer Street in Downtown Crossing.
The hearing begins at 10 a.m. in City Hall Room 801.
H/t FortPointer.
By adamg - 3/31/15 - 6:01 pm
Jessica Burko reports:
Looking for a Passover shank bone in Rozzie or West Rox? Head over to Roche Bros. it's shank bone central over here.
By adamg - 12/4/14 - 2:38 pm
Dedham Police report they're looking for this guy for purse snatchings at the Stop & Shop and Star Market in their town and at the Roche Bros. in West Roxbury, in which he targets senior citizens who leave their purses unattended.
In the most recent incident, Dec. 1 at the Stop & Shop, police say:
Suspect took a pocket book from elderly female that left her handbag unattended in the produce section.
By adamg - 10/10/14 - 1:31 pm
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that supermarkets cannot shush away signature collectors from their entrances, because they are public spaces where state constitutional rights apply.
The ruling comes in the case of Steven Glovsky, who was told by the manager of the Westwood Roche Bros. in 2012 that he could not collect signatures there for his run for the governor's council.
By adamg - 9/27/14 - 9:16 pm
Shades of JP: Somebody went down Hawthorne Street in Somerville today, putting fliers on car windshields warning how the proposed Davis Square Roche Bros. would be the first step in turning the square "corporate."
By adamg - 8/18/14 - 6:35 pm
Alderman Jack Connolly reports Roche Bros. is expressing interest in the ground floor of the Social Security building - to the point of setting a Sept. 10 date for a meeting with residents about the idea.
By adamg - 7/21/14 - 5:54 pm
Roche Bros., owned by the same family since its founding in the 1950s, had full produce departments today - as shown in West Roxbury.
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