The Market Report

McKinnon's Supermarket Opened: 2011 Owner:  Carl and Ed Penta Previous Tenants:  Shaw's (ca. 1970-2008) Cooperative:  none Location:  2454 Lafayette Rd, Portsmouth, NH Photographed:  July 8, 2023 We've seen a few McKinnon's stores so far, including the original butcher shop in Somerville and their Wilmington location . Here's a (really terrible, I know) picture of the Portsmouth location, on route 1 near the coastline. This store was constructed around 1970 as a Shaw's, which was in business with its original Super Shaw's interior all the way until 2008. See the exterior here , and meat , seafood , and dairy . (The other Shaw's in town closed in 2019 .) The roughly 35,000 square foot space reopened in 2011 as a location of McKinnon's . Although I haven't been inside, McKinnon's and others have posted several pictures online, so you can check out produce , butcher , seafood , grocery , and frozen/dairy . The store looks pretty great, and it...

Hannaford Opened:  2014 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop (2006-2013) Cooperative:  none Location:  141 Portsmouth Ave, Exeter, NH Photographed:  January 8, 2025 Stop & Shop is a powerhouse in southern New England, and is the market leader in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and parts of Massachusetts. In other places, though, they haven't been as successful. In the mid-00s, they began building stores in the southern part of Vermont and New Hampshire, eventually having six New Hampshire stores. A location at 318 S Main St in Rutland, VT was constructed but never opened. That store along with two of the former New Hampshire stores became Hannaford -- opening in Rutland in 2007, and stores in Bedford and Exeter, NH became Hannafords in 2013. The parent companies of Hannaford and Stop & Shop merged in 2015. Many of these Super Stop & Shop stores were really big -- stores built at this time were as big as 90,000 square feet -- an...

Market Basket Opened: 1974 (possibly in other location in strip mall) Owner:  DeMoulas family Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  380 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH Photographed:  July 8, 2023 The Market Report arrives for the first time in New Hampshire! Welcome to the Granite State, where I have photographed a couple dozen stores. For now, we're only going to see a few along the coastline, then come back to the state later for the inland stores. This Market Basket opened in 1974, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were originally in a smaller location in the mall (like what's now the TJ Maxx ) and it moved to this spot around the 1990s. The exterior and interior were both renovated around 2012. We can actually take a look inside this store thanks to these 360-degree views posted by DeeCeeHawk to Google Maps! The layout is standard, with dairy in the first aisle, meat on the back wall and deli/seafood in the back-right corner, produce and froze...

West Newbury Food Mart Opened: 1963; 1959 previously on this property Owner:  Vermette family Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Associated Grocers of New England Location:  275 Main St, West Newbury, MA Photographed:  August 20, 2025 "Welcome," that chicken painted on the store above says, "to The Market Report's last store visit in Massachusetts!" Over the last year and a half or so, we've spent a lot of time visiting stores across the state, and now it's time for the very last one. And it's a fun one! The West Newbury Food Mart has been in business here since 1959, according to their website . It opened in 1959, but burned down just four years later. That resulted in the current iteration of the store being built, although it was expanded and renovated in 1976 to its current 7600 square feet or so. It's the only full-scale grocer in West Newbury, but we're just down the street from the Shaw's and the Market Basket in Newburyport ...