Continuing the celebration of The Market Report's 10th year! Each month of 2026, I'll be posting a different special feature to celebrate my 10th year of writing this blog. Last month, we took a look at my favorite posts of 2016-2020 , and in January, we investigated the history of A&P and its other brands . This month, let's spend some more time on the past with a look at some historical photos today and memorabilia tomorrow from my own collection! Thanks to a framed picture hanging in Caldwell, NJ's wonderful Cloverleaf Tavern , we can get a look at Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair, NJ, where a streetcar rolls up the hill by a gorgeous 1950s Food Fair. It's still a supermarket, and it's a fairly small but pleasant Whole Foods . Compare the above picture to this one I took in 2016... In my travels, I've come across plenty of other historical photos posted in stores I've visited, such as the Collingswood, NJ ACME... ...as seen in the Westmont ACME ....
Our final day of Sights & Scenes brings us to northeastern MA, from the Concord area up through Haverhill and out to the coast. See the previous few days' posts in Connecticut & Rhode Island , the Worcester area , south and west of Boston , Boston itself , and north and east of Boston . Click on any of the headings here to see the stores in that group. Greater Lowell & Northern Middlesex and Return to Lowell Pepperell, MA - My first trip through this area was on an incredible fall day when I biked from Worcester up to a friend's house in Nashua, NH, winding my way through the country roads of Middlesex County. Here are some of the most beautiful scenes from Pepperell, a quaint town where we saw two little grocery stores . Littleton, MA - Same day, different location, at the postcard-perfect train station in Littleton . Carlisle, MA is about halfway between Concord and Chelmsford , and home to this former cranberry bog that's now a nature preserve. Althoug...