This stinks. In this economy? Where are all the elderly with their grocery carts shop? Where will families on a budget shop?

Not Whole Foods. I can tell you that.
This definitely changed the grocery landscape. And not for the good.

Once again I am correct .... Boy the Moonbats hate it when your smarter then them ....Well the silly anti catholic yuppie moonbats will have a new Mecca in WF's . Good luck to them and the so called organic food.......

Go to Market Basket in Burlington....Wished a Market Basket would have move in instead of whole foods, either in Arlington or Somerville !!....best prices around on most items and they are starting to come around with the organics...they have a good mix of organic foods!!

Jon , I am smarter the the average moonbat .... LoL

i will miss Johnnies. A great Arlington store...... I went to the Meat House the other day, and the Fresh scallops were on sale for 29.99/LB What a bargain.. WOW, Great prices ahhaaaaaaa AAhhahahha.. No one in the store . Another yuppie store ready to close......What next?
i went to Uneashed, next door, and there was NO ON IN THERE? 6/Bucks for a dog bone? I dont think so? another Yuppie store closing?
As the A-LIST says, from the 2 DINKS in Winchester, H- MART is where it'st at, go there, IN Burlington .
Thats where we are shopping. Thanks A LIST.. and the 2 DINKS

And according to another A town web site, YOUR ARLINGTON, the site is writing reports, about the food in restaurants and service at them in town? They seem to be the new Phanton Gourmets in Arlington.
I think it is great. Keep it up..Critical and positive is good.

I just passed by Johnnies Foodmaster while heading home!! I was shocked to see the store closing signs!! I just went there last Sunday!! I've lived in Arlington for nearly six years and would go there to get a few things because it was inexpensive! I have to admitt that the customer service wasn't the best, but I will miss walking down there to pick up a few things!! The country is still hurting badly from the ression! I only hope things get better!! There's already a Whole Foods around the corner at the Fresh Pond Mall. I shop there too to get speciality foods and little it, but prices are too expensive.

Saul, Your Arlington is the National Enquirer of Arlington . If you have an advertisement on his blog your are the greatest thing . If you don't then he sells you down the river . It is terrible journalism but I read it like the funnys for a good laugh ..

Read an article about shopping at Whole Foods; if you look for the 365 bargains, they are there and by hitting the sales and exercising enough will power, you can do as well as a Johnny's or Stop & Shop. It's just that most people get sucked in by all the groovy pricey items. Also, IMHO the health and environmental benefit of an organic pear from Peru is undermined the the fossil fuel burnt to get it here. And some of my best friends are Catholics, by the way.

Why do we need another WF store when there is one a few miles away in Cambridge at Fresh Pond? Again, Arlington is pushing the elderly and lower income out of town.

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Ridiculous. Arlington does not need a yuppie upscale food store. It needs a place where our elderly can buy a few items at a decent price. How are they NOT taken into consideration. Prices are outrageous at WF and not much better at Stop N Shop, Many of our elderly don't drive and Johnnies was a place on the bus route. Wrong choice for this town. We have enough upscale food stores in the area. Johnnies isn't perfect, but certainly a better alternative.

As Jon said, " This was a business decision between Johnnies and WF." If Johnnies was 'making it', they would probably not be selling out. When people stop in to get a few low-priced items instead of doing their weekly grocery shopping, this is what happens. When people drive to get the best deals, they're spending money on gas, wear-and-tear on their cars, more time to achieve the task and contribute to more air pollution. I'm not preaching because I'm guilty of this myself, but am attempting to rethink and readjust my activities.

I am going to produce a new tv show are you smarter than a yuppie ? It's going to be like are you smarter than fifth grader , but a fifth grader is smarter than a yuppie . A fifth grader has more common sense

trust me you are better off without jonnies the stores are moldy and some of the meat they sell is over a year old

Johnnies was the choice for alot of our Ederly, For now w/only Stop&Shop open, the prices will be less than Whole Foods, but not a bargain except for the loss leaders. I have found the Market Basket store on the Lexxington/Burlington line has the best prices the lowest around, great service, nice people, food, meat, veggies, A+ all the time . Perhaps we can get together and find some transport for our seniors.

What's so bad about Stop and Shop? It's only a block or so away.

Now that all the remaining Johnnie's are closing isn't this conversation moot?

Market Basket moves produce like no other grocery chain. Meaning the lowest prices and the freshest produce. Apples 99 cents, all kinds, almost all the time. Compare that to Stop&Shop, Shaws, or Whole Foods. The Chelsea MB is amazing. I suggest MB in Burlington, or MB in Somerville. Whole Foods studies their demographic before deciding to open. They refused a site offered in Winter Hill. Not up to their demographics. Personally, I believe they price higher because their demographic can afford it and is willing to pay. I shop WF for a few select items only. Just as folks prefer Trader Joe's, WF's will do just fine in Arlington and I wouldn't count on them closing anytime soon. The day is coming when none of the regular grocery shops will exist.

If you shop at market basket you wait in line forever and one day you fing something you like anf the next time it no longer is there. Not very good for the elderly. Lived in this town for 75 yrs. Sad how it is turning seniors out.

Gone4Now is correct. This is free market capitalism at it's finest.

Hey knock it off with the Matket Basket info. Next thing you know every bat in the zip code will be crowding in. Do not forget bang 4 the buck at Cocco Waltham. Meats & everyday supplies 4 families!

And no the family is not into continuing the biz. The food biz is a very low profit low margin and highly competitive. Anyone in business or 1/2 a brain knows that the only way to profit is to tell them this is good for you.

Your not smarter than a Minuteman freshmen. Your not too brite. I think you loose you're mind because you don't know witch stores are good for the people in town.

I'll go to Market Basket in Burlington. So now Arlington will have no "budget minded" place to shop. Frankly, I shop at all the stores: Market Basket to save the most money, Johnnie's when I want to go somewhere local, Stop & Shop, when Johnnie's is closed or I need good produce from an Arlington place. The prices are so inflated at Stop and Shop, and for what? Johnnie's was fine. Just like the places we all shopped when we or our parents were children - before everybody felt like shopping should be a quasi-luxury experience. Some people have different allocations for their incomes, I suppose.

Boy, is Arlington changing.. We lived there from 1977-1994, and I work there since 2004. I'm glad to see the influx of new business (there were a lot of storefronts for rent when I lived there), but the death of Foodmaster saddens me greatly. It is a neighborhood, locally owned, non Big Corp store that serves well the local community. WF will charge a lot more for some of the very same items. I am a believer in Organic growing, local sourcing and sustainability, but Foodmaster was a great asset for many people in Arlington.

jon- thanks for the laughs- yes, they are there.

Nobody has said anything about the fact Johnnies had their own bakeries and what are we going to do without the White Mountain bread? Old Johnny is about 90 I think, he's in Florida, and young Johnny is about 55 - OK? Ten stores really is at the point where you're not big, but too big to be a corner store. I was the son of the son of the son at the family business. Save us. There comes a time if you own it lock stock and barrel, maybe it's time to sell it? But who's going to buy it? At least we were able to shop at a place that was named after the founder while he was still alive! Think "Grandfather Clock" - they never sold another head of lettuce after the old man died .. sort of ... Johnnies and Johnny, linked together. It goes, then he goes, and little Johnny? Well he goes to Zabar's.

I hear was about $38 million, which means about $4 million for each store; not that much really, which tells you something. It was time to sell.

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Sad face. We moved in a block from Johnnies - loved it. Take a lesson from a vibrant and successful town like Keene NH. Keep companies who suck the local economy dry of money spent locally out of town. WF is a scummy company. Do your research.

If Foodmaster was so great, why was it always empty, even Saturday morning? And the few people I saw there were not necessarily elderly. I would buy a few things there because it was close, but did not do my regular shopping there - poor selection & questionable freshness of perishable food due to low volume.

There is plenty of market for a place that is both good and inexpensive, witness Trader Joe's. Foodmaster was neither.

I've been using the Online/delivery service at Johnnies for about 2 years now and I've grown to love it. I suppose I'll have to change over to athe PeaPod at Stop and Shop now.

I'm going to really miss Johnnies. I have no love for Whole Foods.

That was dirty canning the employees 2 weeks before Thanksgiving. Not nice!

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I was hoping for a Trader Joe's!