Before we continue north along the coast of New England, it's time for a quick return to Worcester County. Why? Well, after I posted stores in the area of eastern Worcester County (see this area ), I actually got the chance to go back to the Hopkinton and Milford areas very recently -- in late August of this year, which obviously is much more recently than most of my Worcester-area coverage from ca. 2018-2023. So now we're going to interrupt the usual flow to return to this region, then a quick swing back up towards Lowell before we return to the north shore, to the north of Boston. We'll be taking a look at a store in Hopkinton, about 15 miles southeast of Worcester and ten miles southwest of Framingham. Then The Market Report visits all of the grocers of Milford, a midsize city between Worcester and Providence. This area is actually a hotspot for grocery activity, as we'll see a couple new stores or recently-changed stores in one way or another. Come back tomorrow for...
Market 32 Opened: 2021 Owner: Northeast Grocery Previous Tenants: Price Chopper (late 1990s-2021) Cooperative: none Location: 240 E Main St, Marlborough, MA Photographed: March 26, 2025 It's time for a look at a Market 32! It's been a while since we've seen a store owned by Northeast Grocery, which runs Price Chopper, Market 32, Market Bistro, and Tops stores. This one was built in the 1990s as a Price Chopper, converting to Market 32 in 2021 after some renovation. It's a nice store, but definitely a far cry from the deluxe Market 32 stores . A programming note: this store is actually back in Middlesex County, about eight miles northwest of Framingham (where today's other post is ). But I inconveniently visited this store less than a week after I finished posting the Framingham-area stores. We also recently saw the Hannaford here in Marlborough , the only other supermarket in town, which is slated to become a Shaw's and closed in September. So now we...