Shaw's Opened: ca. 2000 Owner: Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH Photographed: July 2, 2026 Welcome to Merrimack! This town of around 30,000 is a suburb located between Nashua and Manchester (so we're just five miles south of the Kilton Road Hannaford here). Like Kilton Road, this is a roughly 70,000 square foot supermarket, and Shaw's built this store around 2000. It was a new store when it opened, possibly replacing another location in town but I don't know where that might be. Now, it's one of two Shaw's in Merrimack, which are also the only two supermarkets in town. Possibly because of the lack of competition, Merrimack is a serious time capsule when it comes to the supermarkets. Yep -- this Shaw's has hardly changed a bit since opening day around 2000. That's awesome for us retail enthusiasts, but it's definitely not a good thing in general. This was the first Sha...
Remember the Lowell area (also see here )? Now, it's time to return to that general area -- though this time, we're across the border on the New Hampshire side. It's time to visit Nashua and a few of its suburbs, including Merrimack, Milford, and Hudson. We'll see only a few stores over the next couple weeks -- I haven't spent a lot of time in this area -- but some good news here: recently (like, earlier this month), I got to return to Nashua for the first time in about five years and significantly expanded my collection. So you'll see some late-breaking additions to this group of stores. Over the course of this group, we'll travel from north to south, from Merrimack near Manchester down through Milford, Nashua, and Hudson. After Nashua, we're all done with New Hampshire and we move west to Vermont! FYI... July's 10th year feature has sadly been delayed because of adding stuff to Nashua, so keep an eye out for two coming in August!