The Market Report

Pepperell Quality Market Opened: ca. 2020 Owner:  Gohal and Mohanbhai Patel Previous Tenants:  Donelan's (1994-ca. 2020) Cooperative:  none Location:  75 Main St, Pepperell, MA Photographed:  October 9, 2021 In our last few stores, it definitely didn't feel like Worcester anymore, but everything we saw in the Wachusett and Montachusett regions was still in Worcester County. Now we're just over the border in the town of Pepperell, population around 11,000. In 1994, local chain Donelan's built a store of just under 14,000 square feet, it seems replacing an older building on the same property (not sure if it was a grocery store or not). Donelan's operated the store until about 2020, when they sold this location to independent owners, Gohal and Mohanbhai Patel, who renamed the store Pepperell Quality Market. In an interesting twist, in 2021, they also acquired the other Donelan's locations, which continue to operate as Donelan's (and we'll be seeing a coupl...

Welcome to Middlesex County! We're just to the east of Worcester County here, and for this group, we're starting at the northern part of the county and winding up near Lowell in the northeastern corner, which is very near the New Hampshire border (just 12 miles to Nashua, NH, for instance, one of the bigger cities in southern New Hampshire). Our trip will wind through Pepperell in the northwestern part of the group, then Ayer, Groton, and Littleton to the south, then turn east to Westford, Chelmsford, Lowell, and North Billerica. This is Market Basket territory -- they're based just to the east in Tewksbury -- but as we'll see, there's plenty of other supermarkets in this region as well! Tomorrow, we're off to Pepperell for the first stop!