McKinnon's Supermarket Opened: 2022 Owner: Carl and Ed Penta Previous Tenants: Lucci's Supermarket (1956-2022) Cooperative: none Location: 211 Lowell St, Wilmington, MA Photographed: July 8, 2023 Here in Wilmington, a longtime independent supermarket was recently taken over by a local chain. Lucci's Supermarket first opened in Wilmington in 1956, but in 2022, the 20,000 square foot store was sold to McKinnon's Supermarkets , a chain of five stores in northeastern MA and southern NH. It still has an old-school feel, but it's been nicely fixed up. Lucci's appears to have done a renovation shortly before selling the store. Produce and some frozen are in the first aisle on the left side, which is labeled aisle 10. Additional frozen and packaged meat line the back wall, and the rest of the perimeter departments are in an expansion in the back-right corner, with the rest of meat, deli, prepared foods, and bakery in that corner. Dairy lines the right side wall of...
Welcome to the middle of Middlesex! We're north of Framingham but south of Lowell, where we recently spent some time. Because we finished up in North Billerica in the northeastern part of the county with the last group, we're going to start on the eastern side of this group, moving from eastern central Middlesex County (Wilmington and Burlington), then doing a little zig-zag through Acton and Concord (yes, that Concord ), and finally finishing up in Maynard, Stow, and Hudson to the southwest of that area. This is a very suburban area, almost bordering on rural in parts, despite its proximity to bigger cities. Relatively large expanses of forest (for eastern Massachusetts, of course) and other natural areas separate this region from the bigger cities, and these are all small towns. Another landmark of note in this area is the Hanscom Air Force Base just outside Burlington. It actually has its own supermarket, the Hanscom Commissary , which being a military facility I don'...