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Brattleboro Food Co-op - Brattleboro, VT

Brattleboro Food Co-op Opened: 2012 in current location; 1975 previously Owner: cooperatively owned Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: National Co-op Grocers Location: 2 Main St, Brattleboro, VT Photographed:  August 10, 2021 The Market Report has arrived in Vermont for the first time, and what better place to do it than the Brattleboro Food Co-op! After all, it's close to familiar territory: just across the river from New Hampshire and eight miles north of the MA border. Plus, Vermont is the land of food co-ops, so this is a fitting introduction. This food co-op dates back to 1975, but like many of these New England co-ops, recently moved into a modern supermarket building. This one was actually a new-build facility right in downtown Brattleboro, and the supermarket now spans around 21,000 square feet. It's one of four supermarkets in Brattleboro, with the others (a Market 32, an ALDI, and a Hannaford) located outside of the downtown area. This one has a very helpful col...
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For the first time ever, The Market Report arrives in the Green Mountain State! And unlike Maine and New Hampshire , I actually have a lot of coverage over a lot of the state. While I can't claim to have photographed every supermarket in Vermont (or even close to it), we have enough posts that our coverage of Vermont will actually take almost four months. The Market Report's first stop is in the southeastern part of the state, around the Brattleboro area. From there, we'll turn north via Putney to make our way up to Bellows Falls and White River Junction, all along the New Hampshire border. We'll circle inland via Chester, Londonderry, and a few other towns in the middle of the state before turning south again to wind up in Wilmington about halfway across the state (east-west, that is) near the MA border. Come back tomorrow to start in Brattleboro!

Recommended Reading 2

  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. There's a lot to see already, so here's a summary of what we've done so far: 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 June: Best of 2021-2025 July:  Shop the City Following up on April's Recommended Reading post, here's some more recommendations. Now, I love supermarkets, but in my real life outside of this blog, I read (and write) about all kinds of food stuff, so let's step away from the world of supermarkets for a day. Here's the best of what you need to be reading food-wise outside supermarkets, plus a handful of supermarket-specific recommendations at the end. Food Journalism Okay, fair warning here: there's much more outstanding food journalism than I c...

Shop the City

  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. There's a lot to see already, so here's a summary of what we've done so far: 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 June:  Best of 2021-2025 This is one of the most exciting special features I'm doing this year and the culmination of years' worth of work -- Shop the City is now live! This is the definitive guide to food stores in New York City. Every single supermarket (more than 1000) in all five boroughs, plus a selection of smaller grocers and history. Search by the neighborhood, the store name, the owner, the supplier, and lots more! Browse the website here... Click here to visit SHOP THE CITY! Technically, this is July's special feature, so we're goin...

Patel Brothers - Nashua, NH

Patel Brothers Opened: 2021 Owner: Swetal & Rakesh Patel Previous Tenants:  non-grocery tenants Cooperative: none Location: 292 Daniel Webster Hwy, Nashua, NH Photographed: July 2, 2026 When you think of grocers of New Hampshire, you're probably not thinking of an Indian supermarket. And it's true that most of New Hampshire's grocery stores are pretty straightforward. But Nashua and its surroundings have a significant Indian American community, and so businesses catering to that community have popped up too. Patel Brothers is one of the latest additions, opening their first and only New Hampshire location here in 2021. This former JC Penney Home Store is around 25,000 square feet, and the produce department takes up a large part of the store at the front. It's oriented with the first aisle here running along the front wall of the store and the registers along the left-side wall. Patel's Fresh Kitchen and a bakery is in the front-right corner, with dairy lin...

Whole Foods Market - Nashua, NH (Daniel Webster)

Whole Foods Market Opened:  December 2024 Owner: Amazon Previous Tenants:  Toys R Us > Amazon Fresh (planned, never opened) Cooperative: none Location: 272 Daniel Webster Hwy, Nashua, NH Photographed:  July 2, 2026 Recognize the outside of this store? This has the classic facade installed in all Amazon Fresh stores , and that's because this former Toys R Us was slated to be the only Amazon Fresh in New Hampshire. The store measures around 44,000 square feet, so while it's smaller than a lot of supermarkets, it's actually about 1.5 times the size of the other Whole Foods here in Nashua. While this store is laid out exactly like an Amazon Fresh (and that means likely that the Amazon Fresh was fully built out but simply never opened, like so many locations), the decor is drastically different from Amazon Fresh's appearance. Frankly, it's quite beautiful in person. With the classic Fresh layout, you enter to produce in the front-right corner. Meat and seafood are...