The Market Report

Market Basket Opened:  between 1992 and 1998 Owner:  DeMoulas family Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  1500 Lafayette Rd, Portsmouth, NH Photographed:  July 8, 2023 In addition to Portsmouth's McKinnon's , today we're taking a look at the Market Basket in town. Built between 1992 and 1998, this 51,000 square foot supermarket looks like a pretty standard Market Basket inside. Another Market Basket of almost exactly the same size and setup is located at the north end of town. Market Baskets are mostly very similar to each other, but this is actually our last Market Basket for quite some time! Up next, The Market Report visits Maine, which has a handful of Market Baskets (but I haven't been to any of them). When we circle back to southern New Hampshire -- like the Nashua area, which is just across the border from Lowell, MA -- we'll see some more Market Baskets. Speaking of, that's the last store of this group. For now, come back tomor...

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...