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Re: Roche Brothers plans a market for Davis Square, seen in another newspaper

Dear Editor:

This article is very good, and glad to know that there’ll be another market in Davis Square. As a senior, at the beginning of each month, I bunny hop to all of the available markets in Somerville. Those are: Market Basket for dry & frozen products, Stop & Shop, also McKinnon’s and Star Market. I search for all the sales. All of them are great. But it’d be great to have an even wider choice. Some, but not all. Of these stores carry high prices.

In this article I saw too many “no’s” to the idea of having Roche Brothers be a part of Somerville. I agree that they should have their day, and when we lived in Hyde Park, Roche Brothers was one of our favorites. They have lots of sales. I highly recommend having another in our area. We are five minutes away from Elm Street. There is always room for a newcomer.

The writer mentioned Stop & Shop on Alewife Parkway, Cambridge which is not that close. Better to have mentioned the much closer Stop & Shop right off Broadway in Somerville. A thought : Why doesn’t Roche Brothers (or even Star) take on the closed-for-a-long-time Star Market on Broadway? People in that area need a supermarket. Many miss it now.

My father owned and ran a large grocery market with a soda fountain and hot soup and sandwiches along with his brother (far larger than a corner grocery store), in Roxbury from the 1920s through the 1980s, the Sunrise to Midnight. All of us: family, relatives, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends, worked there.

Sincerely,

Carol Rae Bradford, M.Ed., Author

Somerville resident