TOUR: Hannaford - Uxbridge, MA

Hannaford

Opened: 2004

Previous Tenants: Victory Markets (closed 2004)
Location: 158 N Main St, Uxbridge, MA

Photographed: September 4, 2021

There are no Hannafords in the immediate Worcester area (a shame, since I think generally Hannafords are run quite well), but there are a few in Worcester County. Most are up in the Montachusett region, in Fitchburg/Leominster, but we saw one in North Brookfield acquired from Victory Markets and here's another acquired Victory store towards the southern part of Worcester County.

This store is just over 40,000 square feet, or about 10,000 square feet smaller than the Shaw's (its nearest competitor) about three miles north. As far as I can tell, it still doesn't have the latest Hannaford decor package, but it looks really good with the older one.

Hannaford, in my experience, does a really good job of running these smaller-scale, small town stores across New England. They also have plenty of large stores, and we'll see multiple stores at all sizes across the region eventually.

We enter to the grand aisle on the left side of the store, with produce and floral in the front part. Natural foods are behind produce, with deli and seafood on the back wall. HABA is in the first few aisles with pharmacy at the front of the first aisle in an island. Meat is on the back wall with dairy and frozen on the right side, and bakery is in the front right corner.

Ahold Delhaize remains particularly decentralized, and it's amazing to me how different Hannaford typically is from sister chain Stop & Shop. (That Grafton store is 10 miles north.) The closest Stop & Shop is 9 miles east in Milford. In my opinion, Hannaford stores are consistently far better than their Stop & Shop counterparts.

Here's a look at the natural foods department, with short aisles running side-to-side at the back of the grand aisle. The deli is in the back left corner, with seafood up next on the back wall.

As we see, the store is in excellent repair. No burnt-out lights, and look at that floor!

Here's a look at the pharmacy at the front of the first aisle.

Looking across the back wall of the store. Notice that there's another grocery aisle in the back between the center-store and the meat department.

The grocery aisles are clean, well-stocked, and organized. It's a very pleasant store.

It looks like the meat department cases might be on the older side.

Fresh Dair in the back corner (the y appears to have long since gone). Other than that, the store is in great shape!

Bright blue freezer cases -- some a little older than others.

12 aisles in total, with frozen on one side and packaged bread on the outside.

The bakery is in the front corner. Hannaford's bakery is one part that I think isn't particularly strong, it's definitely adequate but not more than that.

And looking out from the bakery across the front-end...

That's all for this Hannaford! It'll be a little while until we see one again (once we leave Worcester to the north... so that'll be a few months). In the meantime, though, we're off to another small general store in town!