Star Market

There’s something quaint about this store. If you don’t have a long list, and you know that they have the exact item that you want, this can be a very convenient place to shop. There’s also an interesting service that they provide where you can have your bags loaded onto a conveyor belt and then an employee will load them into your car when you drive into a tunnel underneath the store. It’s a great thing for people who may not be capable of lugging groceries to the car on their own. It’s also worth pointing out that one of the women who works down there is extremely nice as well.
I personally prefer a bigger grocery store with more selection, and if you do as well then you’re probably better off overlooking the novelty of this location and going to a fuller sized grocery store that has the variety you’re looking for.

The Supermarket Overpass! The COOLEST place to shop. Ever.
Now, I haven’t actually looked for windows for the Mass Pike (as the store is LITERALLY on the Mass Pike!), but this store is super cool. It’s so weird to be food shopping and on the highway at the same time. Also, Bruce Springsteen visited the Supermarket Overpass years ago, which I find quite interesting.
Anyway, for the store: it’s not huge, yet not small. Somewhere in the middle. It has all normal departments, and a wide variety of products, just not in a luxurious experience such as the Chestnut Hill Star Market. Staff seemed all friendly, happy, and helpful and the prices weren’t SKY high. The checkout lines weren’t very long, and it was a quick process. Yet, at checkout the cashier asked if I wanted my groceries «taken down». I didn’t understand this and he explained how the Star Market of Newtonville is NOT allowed to let ANY carriages leave the store what so ever. So, for people with large grocery purchases, all of people groceries going into a huge bucket and you drive your car from the lot to the «Bundle Pickup», which is at the end of the Parking Lot on Austin Street, looking like a parking garage entrance to pick up all of your food. Cool, and somewhat nice to have someone else be able to load your car, but also inconvenient for the hurry-​some people of the world. Plus, this is a neighborhood area, some people may be walking to get their groceries in which they MUST carry them all home in comparison to using a carriage. Too bad the city of Newton has too many strict laws (where are the plastic bags and drive thru restaurants!!! Bad decisions by the somewhat-​annoying city of Newton).
Overall, good experience, I may return for the hype of the Overpass, but otherwise don’t go to much out of your way for it. Nearby Chestnut Hill Star Market, or Auburndale for that matter, are both larger stores, with somewhat easier convenience of coming in and going out (carriage wise). 4 stars.

This store, is great in the evenings, where all the meats are priced with $ 3 off coupons. Because nobody buys there meet at full price. They have a very high Russian population, Jewish population, and not super rich. Their corporate prices are high, but modest for the area. Their staff is rough around the edges, you have to watch for one girl who always puts her hand on the scale when she weighs your vegetables. Definitely watch out for that. Alex however is a friendly guy, who should be store manager.
Their store manager however is a prick. This winter with our super snowy everyday, she towed people in her lot which is all fine and dandy however she towed customers while they were shopping. I literally came out of the store bag in hand and had to yell to get them to lower my car. Store manager was a prick she said I was shopping too long

So after living in this area and shopping in five to six different food places the past couple of decades… I go back to Star, which used to be called Shaws for a few decades and now has reverted back to Star… I go in and the place has really been cleaned up and just about every aisle has specials, I go in looking for just a few items and ended up buying so much stuff that I had to reorganize my fridge and freezer for my new supplies!!! I pretty much have shopped here out of nostalgia in the past as much as for any other reason. Like the Eels that make their way back from the big deep Sargasso Sea, I always find my way back here… well now there is even more reasons to!!!