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Henry's Market - Beverly, MA

Henry's Market Opened: 2015 under current ownership; 1941 previously Owner:  Jim Crosby / Crosby's Marketplace Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Associated Grocers of New England Location:  588 Cabot St, Beverly, MA Photographed:  May 14, 2022 In business since 1941, Henry's Market of Beverly, MA is definitely one of the longest-standing grocers in this area -- though not the oldest operating one . Expanded many times to its present 18,000 square feet, the supemarket was taken over in 2015 by the owners of Crosby's Marketplace . Crosby's has mostly left the store as-is, but has brought some of the higher-end prepared foods and other more gourmet offerings into their other locations. The building is laid out a bit strangely because of the many expansions, but it's an attractive and well-run supermarket. The first department we encounter is the produce department, in the front section with some very nice skylights bringing natural light into the rustic-style...
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(UPDATED) The cheapest grocery store in the northeast is...

  It's time for another price comparison! I started this tradition last January , with another one coming out last summer . Now, the same list brings us a new cheapest supermarket. Click below to check out the full list, including comparisons to the past surveys, averages, and lots more. Click here to see the full list! UPDATE 2/7/26: Market Basket, Gristedes, Morton Williams, Sprouts, and King Kullen added!

Woodbery Food Market - Beverly, MA

Woodbery Food Market Opened: 2014 Owner:  Amit Patel Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  157 Essex St, Beverly, MA Photographed:  May 14, 2022 Welcome to the Woodbery Food Market in northeastern Beverly! This independent grocer of just 3000 square feet or so was built in 2014. The name might seem unusual -- Woodbury or Woodberry would be the more common spellings, and in fact there's a historic Woodbury/Woodberry House across town. But there's another historical Woodbery house, the William Woodbery house, just a couple blocks away from this store at 111 Essex St. Woodbery Food Market, an attractive and extensive store for its small size, is part liquor store, part convenience store, and part grocer. Beverages, including beer and wine, are in the first aisle along the front wall, with a few additional aisles of groceries. Meat, deli, and produce are on the back wall of the store with registers on the right-side wall. I didn't see a lot of stor...

377 Cabot St, Beverly, MA

Original Grocery Tenant: A&P Address: 377 Cabot St, Beverly, MA Opened:  by 1951 Closed:  between 1979 and 1985 Later Tenants:  Medi-Mart (opened 1985) > Walgreens (open by 1994) > Brooks Drugstore (closed 2007) > Rite Aid (2007-2018) > Dollar Tree (opened 2021) Photographed:  May 20, 2025 Near downtown Beverly, and just east of one of the town's Stop & Shops , is this 20,000 square foot former supermarket. You can probably recognize it as a former A&P centennial store, as the facade today is mostly original. After A&P closed around the early 1980s, it became a Medi-Mart drugstore (owned by Stop & Shop) in 1985, then a Walgreens by 1994, then a Brooks Drugstore. Brooks would've installed the facade we see today, and closed by 2007. Rite Aid took over Brooks and occupied the space for 11 years, closing in 2018. Dollar Tree then opened in 2021. An interesting note about the A&P that originally occupied the building: it predated the...

Stop & Shop - Beverly, MA (Elliott St)

Stop & Shop Opened: between 1995 and 2001 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  224 Elliott St, Beverly, MA Photographed:  May 14, 2022 Welcome to Beverly, the suburban town of roughly 43,000 just north of Salem, where we've spent the past few days. There are two Stop & Shop stores in town, so today The Market Report tours the one just outside of downtown towards the southern end of town. It's not a terribly exciting store. It was built between 1995 and 2001 in the standard style of stores of that era, around 65,000 square feet. I don't know the full remodel history here, but we do know that it had the yellow and purple decor before being renovated in 2022. As you can see from the YAY sign above, I visited right as they were having their grand reopening. I don't know about you, but a picture of a balloon always gets me excited for a grand reopening. I am, of course, joking. This was undoubtedly the saddest grand r...