Super Power

In a notoriously segregated city, shoppers of all races are flocking to a fast-growing supermarket chain called Super 88. Its founder triumphed through communist invasion, shipwreck, and fire. Now, he wants to change the way you shop for groceries.

George Luu says his father, Peter, who founded Super 88, would often say to him: "If you're going to spend a lot of energy that's not on work to better the family, it's just wasted energy." (Photo / Pam Berry) Photo / Pam Berry

PHOTO GALLERY: Super 88 Supermarkets

By Chris Berdik

August 14, 2005

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WALK PAST THE CHINESE LION STATUES GUARDING THE AUTOMATIC DOORS OF SUPER 88 IN Dorchester's South Bay shopping center, and the first thing you'll see is "Rice City," a wall of 25-pound bags. The first thing you'll smell, if only faintly, are the fish tanks, where future fillets of tilapia, salmon, and butterfish swim out of sight at the far ... (Full article: 3416 words)