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Market Basket - Seabrook, NH

Market Basket Opened: 1974 (possibly in other location in strip mall) Owner:  DeMoulas family Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  380 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH Photographed:  July 8, 2023 The Market Report arrives for the first time in New Hampshire! Welcome to the Granite State, where I have photographed a couple dozen stores. For now, we're only going to see a few along the coastline, then come back to the state later for the inland stores. This Market Basket opened in 1974, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were originally in a smaller location in the mall (like what's now the TJ Maxx ) and it moved to this spot around the 1990s. The exterior and interior were both renovated around 2012. We can actually take a look inside this store thanks to these 360-degree views posted by DeeCeeHawk to Google Maps! The layout is standard, with dairy in the first aisle, meat on the back wall and deli/seafood in the back-right corner, produce and froze...
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West Newbury Food Mart - West Newbury, MA

West Newbury Food Mart Opened: 1963; 1959 previously on this property Owner:  Vermette family Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Associated Grocers of New England Location:  275 Main St, West Newbury, MA Photographed:  August 20, 2025 "Welcome," that chicken painted on the store above says, "to The Market Report's last store visit in Massachusetts!" Over the last year and a half or so, we've spent a lot of time visiting stores across the state, and now it's time for the very last one. And it's a fun one! The West Newbury Food Mart has been in business here since 1959, according to their website . It opened in 1959, but burned down just four years later. That resulted in the current iteration of the store being built, although it was expanded and renovated in 1976 to its current 7600 square feet or so. It's the only full-scale grocer in West Newbury, but we're just down the street from the Shaw's and the Market Basket in Newburyport ...

Market Basket - Newburyport, MA

Market Basket Opened: ca. 1990 Owner:  Demoulas family Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  25 Storey Ave, Newburyport, MA Photographed:  August 20, 2025 Right around the corner from yesterday's Shaw's is the Market Basket in Newburyport. At around 60,000 square feet, it's about 10,000 square feet larger than the Shaw's, and is much higher-volume. Still, the two have coexisted for at least about 20 years. This Market Basket opened around 1990, and doesn't appear to have moved from elsewhere in town. The interior appears to be a pretty straightforward Market Basket, and this store appears to have the prepared foods and bakery setup of Salem -- missing the cafe and seating area that newer stores have. That makes me think the store probably hasn't been remodeled since it opened. Can you believe that we only have one more store in Massachusetts to visit? That's tomorrow's post, so come back to wrap up the state!

Shaw's - Newburyport, MA

Shaw's Opened: unknown Owner:  Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  45 Storey Ave, Newburyport, MA Photographed:  July 7, 2023 Newburyport is known for its scenic waterfront and quaint downtown on the Merrimack River, but The Market Report isn't in town for any of that! Instead, today we're to the northwest of downtown to visit the local Shaw's, one of two supermarkets in town. The other is a Market Basket literally next door to this one, which we'll take a quick look at tomorrow. A word of advice: if you come to Newburyport for one thing, make it the waterfront downtown, not the Shaw's. While there's certainly nothing wrong with this Shaw's, even I can't recommend it as a destination. It's nice, and newly renovated, but looks exactly like every other recently-renovated Shaw's out there. We enter to the grand aisle on the right side of the store, with produce in the front-right corner. Deli and prepa...