Market Basket Opened: 2020 Owner: DeMoulas family Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 90 Old Ferry Rd, Lowell, MA Photographed: August 23, 2025 Across the Merrimack from the tiny Wood Street store, which is today's other post that you can visit here , is a sprawling, brand-new Market Basket that opened in 2020. If the store looks familiar, that's because a contributor sent in a photo of the store a while back, so we have seen the outside before. Also, all Market Baskets look the same, so there's that, too. This store is very big -- 75,000 square feet -- and still feels brand-new despite being five years old. Part of that is the, shall we say, timeless interior design. It looks exactly like the ca. 1950s store across the river. But another part of that, as I mention on that post, is the impeccable maintenance. This store is set up as a mirror image to the Wood Street store, with dairy in the first aisle on the right side. Deli and seafood ar...
Market Basket Opened: ca. late 1950s Owner: DeMoulas family Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 11 Wood St, Lowell, MA Photographed: August 23, 2025 Welcome back to Lowell! Today we're seeing two stores, both Market Baskets, in the northwestern part of town. (See the other one here .) There's a couple things you might notice right away from the outside of this store, and one is that it's newly renovated. The other is that it's incredibly small -- actually only 33,000 square feet, which makes it among the smallest Market Baskets. There's a truly tiny one in downtown Concord, NH that's only 28,000 square feet, but there are very few out there that are that small. It makes sense here, though, as we're in Lowell -- the city where Market Basket originated as Demoulas Superette way back in 1917. That was up in The Acre, a neighborhood of Lowell now home to UMass Lowell's campus about two miles northeast of here. But this store dates way ba...