Market Basket
Opened: ca. 1990s
Owner: DeMoulas family
Previous Tenants: unknown
Cooperative: none
Location: 71 Sack Blvd, Leominster, MA
Photographed: April 7, 2023
It's been a while since we last saw a Market Basket, but as we inch closer to their home territory of northeastern Massachusetts, we'll see more and more of them. The Montachusett Region alone has three between Leominster and Fitchburg, but once we get into Middlesex County, we'll be seeing plenty more.
This is a mid-sized Market Basket, a chain whose stores can be over 100,000 square feet or as small as in the 35,000 square foot range. This one clocks in at 65,000 square feet.
But inside, it looks exactly like every single other Market Basket. That's not a bad thing, they tend to be extremely well-maintained, perfectly clean, and stocked fully. Below you can see a single light burnt out -- I think that was the single burnt-out light in the entire Market Basket chain.
We enter the store to aisle 1, which as usual is dairy, on the right side. Deli, seafood, and cheese are at the back of the first aisle, with meats on the back wall. Produce and frozen foods are on the left side, with bakery and prepared foods in the front-left corner.
This store was built in the early 1990s, although there was an older building on the same property. It looks like the exterior was renovated since then. It appears to be a new building rather than an expansion of the older one, but I could be wrong. Market Basket is an outparcel at the Mall at Whitney Field, an indoor mall just outside downtown Leominster.
Cold cuts are in the first grocery aisle.
As is typical for Market Basket, there really aren't any department signs. Market Basket stores certainly aren't fancy, but they're usually big, clean, and very cheap. I'm talking gallons of milk under $3 and dozens of eggs for around $2. At least for New England, those are very cheap prices.
Meats run along the back wall, with a row of coffin-style freezer cases in front of it.
Now moving over to the front wall, here's a look at Market's Kitchen, the prepared foods department, and the bakery in the corner.
There are 21 aisles, including aisle 1 for dairy, aisle 2 for cold cuts, and 20-21 for frozen foods (and produce).
Frozen foods cases line the inside of the produce department.
And the bakery department is at the front of the produce department.
And the Market's Cafe is just around the corner from the prepared foods department, with a seating area in front of that.
We'll check out the other two area Market Baskets, but first we'll see a possible former supermarket a mile northeast of here!
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