Shoppers World — Attraction in Framingham

Easy access...lots of great shops. It's right near Ken's Restaurant - a restaurant that serves a baked stuffed lobster that is legendary. Plus, there are many other restaurants, including tons of fast food. There food for every budget and taste. I live almost a hundred miles away. So when I drive there for a shopping trip, it is an event, and I can't miss the lobster at Ken's ....whichales my toes curl just thinking about it. By the way, Have you heard of Ken's salad dressing ? It, and Ken's Cocktail sauce, were born HERE. I actually set aside money and time to have a great meal here. It isn't inexpensive, but it certainly isn't overpriced for what you get. I know this is a review about Shopper's World, but as it is one of the three largest shopping areas in all of New England...there's way more to share about it than "easy access, good parking, and variety of stores." Shopper's World started as a shopping center anchored by Jordan Marsh, which is now Macy's. As a child, my brother and I, came to sit on Santa's lap, have our photos taken, and tell Santa what we wanted for Christmas. For years, reindeer were brought in, and they stayed in a corralled area with trees and water and plantings, right near Santa, and we could visit them through the holiday shopping season, right up until Christmas. They wore adornments with jingle bells. Their massive antlers had a soft coating on them. These weren't local deer...these were in point of fact, true reindeer. Everything was done right, and it was all, the highest quality. Even Santa's red velvet suit was the softest, highest quality velvet inagineable. The thing is that no expense was spared. Many decades later, the memories are still vivid... permanently etched in extraordinary detail. The original building, that was built around the open air quadrangle with the trees and plantings (where Santa, and the reindeers were, as described above,) has been torn down to make way for the new budings that are on that spot now. The shopping area drew people in from many miles away. It was, and is, an unparalleled shopping destination. The whole area grew, and grew, and grew. It is nestled right up against the Natick line, so when you look at one of the shopping centers, it only gives you a peek into what is actually there. The Natick Mall, along with other groups of stores and shopping centers, are all abutting or contiguous to Shopper's World. It is a phenomenally huge shopping area. The access is right off the Mass Pike...the Natick exit..not the Framingham exit. Shopper's World sits bordered on the north by Rte 30, bordered on the south by Rte 9, and is abutted on the east by the Natick mall - the easternmost side of which is Speen St. The Shopper's World is a massive shopping area...a shopping mecca...a shopping legacy. Shopper's World is an amazing development. A city into itself....all of which was planted, set in motion, and grew from the seed of foresight, planted by Jordan Marsh - the ancestor of...

If you like to shop and you think that you need an extremely huge place to do it in, then I would definitely suggest doing it at shoppers world. Shoppers world is an entire world for shoppers. It has everything that is about shopping all in one place. Who would have ever imagined there would ever be an entire world for shopping. But here it is. So take advantage of it. I suspect there is supposed to be an apostrophe somewhere in this name, either before or after the last S in shoppers so that it's either shopper's world if it's really for one person or shoppers' world if it's for all shoppers. But maybe they felt that the sign didn't look nice that way. Because those two words together like that with no apostrophe doesn't actually make sense. What does make sense though is that if you need a world to shop in, then it's really the only game in town. And come to think of it maybe they should have called it "a world to shop in" since that sounds awesome and it flows nicely off the tongue. But then again it really doesn't matter what they call a place if it's magnificent at what it does. And this is magnificent in terms of worlds that are for shopping. In fact that's all this does is be a world...

My favorite shopping center around Massachusetts!! They have a Marshall's, TJMaxx, DSW, Nordstrom Rack, Ulta Beauty, Homesense, Barnes and Noble, World Market, AC Moore, Old Navy, Sierra Trading Post, Macy's Furniture Store, Best Buy, and a Starbucks inside the Barnes and Noble. The center always has decent parking and an area for electric (?)/Tesla vehicles to charge. If you get hungry there is a basic American restaurant, Chipotle, Chick-fil-a, and a couple of other chain restaurants in or next to the shopping center. There is a Target, Homegoods, Walmart, Container store, Kohls, and Pier One Imports about 2 minutes away. The Natick mall and Framingham movie theater is also about a 3-5 minute drive away. Great location and great assortment of stores. If they added a couple of independent/local coffee shops here mixed in with a small used bookstore or something, I'm pretty sure I would move in. Great way to spend a day or get most everything you need on your shopping list at decent prices. Highly...