When did this Stop & Shop open, and when did it close?

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Ephrata1966
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When did this Stop & Shop open, and when did it close?

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I'm wondering about what must have been a Stop & Shop on Revere Beach Parkway in Chelsea, Massachusetts. It now is a Save-A-Lot and was next to a Bradlees, now a Home Depot. Articles about a former cinema in the shopping center confirm it indeed was a Stop & Shop. Might it have closed at the same time as the Bradlees, in 2001? Or could it have closed much earlier?
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UPDATE: I just found out via the website HistoricAerials.com that the Bradlees opened no later than 1969, but the Stop & Shop (and what looks like it may have been a MediMart drugstore and then a Walgreens which has since relocated) was added in an expansion sometime between 1971 and 1978. This implies the Bradlees was a very early one, opening sometime between when the chain started in 1958 and when it was bought by Stop & Shop in 1961. Most if not all Bradlees built under Stop & Shop ownership were always paired with a company supermarket from the beginning.
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