The Market Report

Monadnock Food Co-op Opened: 2013 Owner: cooperatively owned Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: National Co-op Grocers Location: 34 Cypress St, Keene, NH Photographed: August 13, 2021 This is not our first food co-op in New Hampshire, but like the Concord co-op, it's a beautiful store with an exciting mix of local and natural products. This store was built in 2013, and it's a new-build -- you can tell that the building, inside and out, still feels pretty new. The cooperative food scene is alive and well in New England, and this 20,000 square foot supermarket is as good an indication as any. You enter to produce on the left side, with dairy in the rest of the first aisle. Meat and seafood counters are on the back wall, along with packaged meats, while frozen foods are in the middle of the store. A large deli, prepared foods, and bakery area is on the right side of the store, along with a substantial cafe seating area. Since so many co-ops are set up this way, it feels in...

Shaw's Opened: ca. 2004 Owner: Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 276 W Main St, Hillsborough, NH Photographed: August 13, 2021 Another early-00s Shaw's (see here and here for other recent examples) is this 58,000 square foot unit in Hillsborough. It was remodeled shortly after I drove through town, probably in late 2021 or early 2022, to the current Shaw's decor but previously had its original decor package still intact. Tomorrow is the final day of this region, with a look at two stores in Keene!

JD Foods Open: ca. 2010-ca. 2023 Owner: Sheryl Lyons Previous Tenants: West Main Market Cooperative: none Location: 192 W Main St, Hillsborough, NH Photographed: August 13, 2021 These days, Hillsborough only has one supermarket -- a Shaw's, which you can see here -- but until recently there was another smaller grocer in town. Previously the West Main Market and then JD Foods, this approximately 5000 square foot general store looks like it was in business for a very long time. JD Foods, which took over West Main around 2010, closed around 2023, shortly after I took this picture back in 2021. Tomorrow, we'll round out The Market Report's look at this region with two stops in Keene!

Hannaford Opened: 2016 Owner: Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants: Stop & Shop (closed 2013) Cooperative: none Location: 7 Kilton Rd, Bedford, NH Photographed: August 16, 2025 This one isn't quite so obvious as the Exeter location, but this Hannaford is a former Super Stop & Shop. Unlike Exeter, this roughly 70,000 square foot location got a major overhaul after Stop & Shop closed in 2013 (and pulled out of all of New Hampshire). Hannaford didn't open until 2016, and ironically, this store's opening date was just about a month before Ahold and Delhaize merged, bringing Hannaford and Stop & Shop under the same ownership. This store was at the time -- and, by all indications, seems to still be -- a flagship location for the chain. It's much larger than most Hannafords, and has a slightly different layout. The Super Stop & Shop layout featured a wide selection of nonfoods (a wider selection than Hannaford has), so Hannaford used a lot of the sales fl...