Market Basket Opened: 2011, replacing older store on property Owner: DeMoulas family Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 1201 Bridge St, Lowell, MA Photographed: August 23, 2025 Happy Monday! Just a couple blocks east of the Dracut Hannaford is the final Market Basket in Lowell we haven't yet seen -- Store #2, in fact. We saw Store #1 (and stores #19 and #88 ) last week. I mentioned Chelmsford is Store #4, and so after some digging I found that store #3 was actually down in Wilmington , about 12 miles southeast. #5 was up in Lawrence, and... you know what, I'm writing this at 11 pm on a Thursday. I should stop with the rabbit hole. So although this was one of the early locations, that doesn't mean (by Market Basket's numbering scheme) this actual building was the second Market Basket. This 67,000 square foot store, in fact, only opened in 2011, replacing an older store in the strip mall when it was constructed on the site of a closed Ame...
Golden Farms Supermarket Opening: TBA Owner: unknown Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: Key Food Stores Location: 200 Henry St, Hempstead, NY Photographed: December 5, 2025 After recently gaining a Shop Fair and a Food Bazaar -- both replacing existing supermarkets, to be fair -- Hempstead is about to get another one, as Golden Farms nears completion south of downtown. This approximately 20,000 square foot store is a new-build and has been in progress for several years at least. Way back when, there was a strip mall on this property that had an Associated as the anchor, but it was demolished for a CVS. The picture above is kind of the back/side of the store, as it will actually face towards the CVS . Golden Farms signage is up around the property too, and this store will be just down the street from Hempstead's Foodtown . Golden Farms is a member of Key Food Stores, although it's not yet clear who the owner here will be (I've seen at least two names, R...