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

[Victor Steinbok]

Unless you actually know of a specific location, searching is not easy.
Most of the items that come up are "health&beauty" salons (mostly "Day
Spa") that might include massages, manicures and facials--no water
treatment. You will find in Western Mass and on Cape Cod quite a number
of resorts that go by Spa. Finding convenience stores and sub shops
among this onslaught is not easy. Joel got the Cambridge locations. I
previously mentioned the Winship Spa in Brighton that is both a
convenience store and a sub shop. Here's one more that's a pizza/sub shop:

Brookline Spa
http://goo.gl/8QS3M  and  http://goo.gl/Lbe0P

     VS-)





On 3/1/2011 9:27 AM, Barbara Need wrote:
> I lived in MA in the 1970s, but I don't remember ever seeing  a
> grocery store with _spa_ in its name. I was north of Boston. Is this
> more localized than has been suggested?
>
> Barbara
>
> Barbara Need
> Ithaca

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