"spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?

[Barbara Need]

Andover Spa in Andover! I lived in Andover for 10 years and do not
remember this institution at all (but I know the street)! I wonder
when it opened--I will check with my friends still there.

B

On 1 Mar 2011, at 11:16 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 3/1/2011 10:22 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>> When I was searching yesterday, I did get via Google some hits that
>> looked like business directory listings --  a la "Smith's Spa"
>> classified
>> as "grocery".  I'll see if I can reconstruct that.
>
> An interim report -- Googling Places for "spa" + "grocery"
> immediately gives a few in eastern Massachusetts that are groceries
> -- Palace Spa in Brighton (GCategory supermarket), Sam's Spa
> Convenience in Everett (upermarket), Andover Spa in Andover (grocery
> store), Hillside Spa Cardoza Brothers in Dorchester (convenience
> store), and the now-famous Montrose Spa (now restaurant) and Oxford
> Spa (now cafe/sandwich shop/coffee shop/American restaurant).

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