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. If you haven't been keeping up with the features... January: Remembering A&P February: Best of 2016-2020 March: Back in Time ( Day 1 , Day 2 , Day 3 ) April: Recommended Reading May: Behind the Scenes Now it's time for the second half of the "Best of" post, with a look at 2021-2025. These are some of my own favorite posts and stores, so I recommend going back and reading or re-reading them if you are interested. After this, it'll be time for our summer break! Best of 2021 Kings Food Markets (various locations) Various posts Albertsons Companies officially took over Kings Food Markets, a New Jersey-based chain with locations in that state along with New York and Connecticut, in January 2021. Over the following months, I had fun tracking the changes at the various stores as the...
Having completed our (relatively brief) trip through the southern part of Maine, let's check out some of the absolutely gorgeous area that we've seen supermarkets in. You can browse all of the stores here . Lincolnville, ME - Where the forest meets the coast, or at least one of many places here in Maine where those two come together, is Lincolnville. Lush greenery inland and rocky beaches make up the scenery here in Lincolnville, which is about five miles east of Lincolnville Center . Belfast, ME - Belfast's quaint coastal downtown is home to several old-fashioned businesses (or, perhaps in the spirit of the storefront above, old-school). Here's a look at the very pastel Colonial theater in town, along with Colburn, the oldest shoe store in America. The sloped main street goes down towards the water, and a long faded Coca-Cola advertisement facing the water is still faintly visible on one of the old brick buildings. Main Street ends at a picturesque marina on the Belf...