Concord Market
Opened: 2018
Owner: Elizabeth Akehurst-Moore
Previous Tenants: none
Cooperative: none
Location: 77 Lowell Rd, Concord, MA
Photographed: May 11, 2023
Welcome to Concord! The small town is, of course,
quaint and filled with American history, and has a
delightful downtown that's great for strolling and sightseeing. The town also has two supermarkets, so let's check out this one right outside downtown!
The store, despite its quaint appearance, is actually a newly-built building, constructed especially for the supermarket in 2018. It's located just in front of a long-standing pharmacy, now a Walgreens but previously a Rite Aid and a Brooks, which itself
looks like it could be a former supermarket. (It was
renovated when the Concord Market opened.)
The entrance is roughly in the middle of the store on the side wall, with the grocery aisles, wine and beer, and dairy/frozen to the left. Butcher, seafood, and deli are on the back wall, with produce and bakery, along with the registers, to the right.
The building is beautiful inside, and feels very spacious despite the fact that it's pretty small. There are a few regular grocery aisles, but the focus here is on specialty foods. It's not the type of place anyone's filling a shopping cart with staples.
I particularly love the aisle markers here. They're easier to read in person, and they're unique -- I don't think I've ever seen something like them.
Here's a look at the dairy/frozen area, which is in the front corner of the store.
The large windows to the left in the above picture look out onto Lowell Road.
And above, we're looking from the grocery aisles over towards the perimeter departments (which, here, are less perimeter and more just a group on one side of the store, since they're not all on the outside walls).
Wine and beer in the back corner of the store.
A beautiful and very high-end service butcher and seafood counter is up next along the back wall of the store.
I love the department signs, which are similar to the aisle markers. They're understated, which is appropriate for the very high-end environment.
A beautiful bakery takes up a lot of the center of the fresh departments, and the produce department faces that in the back corner.
Since it's not a traditional supermarket, the checkouts are not the usual conveyor belt type, but instead more of a series of counters. This is in the back corner closest to the Walgreens.
The Concord Market is a beautiful, upscale specialty supermarket with a great selection of gourmet products. I have stopped in to buy special products -- mostly baked goods, which are generally my favorite thing to splurge on -- when I'm in the area, and I've never been disappointed. Across town, there's another independent store that's a full supermarket, so that's where we're headed tomorrow!
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