Shaw's Opened: 2001 Owner: Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants: Grand Union (ca. 1980s-2001) Cooperative: none Location: 64 Equinox Terr, Manchester, VT Photographed: August 12, 2021 Okay, we've already toured one Grand Union-turned-Shaw's in Wilmington , now let's check out another! Grand Union built this store in the 1980s or so, replacing an older location in town (more on that soon). It measures around 42,000 square feet, making it significantly larger than Wilmington. I visited this store in the summer of 2021, and since then, it's gotten some minor renovations and held a grand reopening. One much-needed change was redoing the signage outside to drop this small and off-center logo. The outside also got a full fresh coat of paint, and that's good because this rather rundown exterior belies the very nice interior. But before we head inside, check out these posters near the entrance still advertising Wild Harvest and Essential Everyday items, roughly ...
Similar to the posts I did in Worcester , let's take a look at the various corner grocers of Bennington! Since these are small stores and I mostly have only exterior pictures, I figured it would be best to combine them all into one post. Bennington seems to have had a rich history of corner stores, and even as grocery stores got larger and moved out to the suburban neighborhoods, these corner stores remained ( some have even expanded and are still going strong). Let's get started... Yott's Market Opened: 1984 Owner: Shefali Patel Previous Tenants: unknown Cooperative: none Location: 600 Gage St, Bennington, VT Photographed: August 8, 2021 Yott's is just a couple blocks over from Henry's, but it's more of a convenience store than a substantial grocer like Henry's is. Willy's Variety Opened: 1946 Owner: Edwin Maroney Previous Tenants: A&P Cooperative: none Location: 300 Gage St, Bennington, VT Photographed: August 8, 2021 And a couple mor...