The Market Report

JD Foods Open: ca. 2010-ca. 2023 Owner: Sheryl Lyons Previous Tenants: West Main Market Cooperative: none Location: 192 W Main St, Hillsborough, NH Photographed: August 13, 2021 These days, Hillsborough only has one supermarket -- a Shaw's, which you can see here -- but until recently there was another smaller grocer in town. Previously the West Main Market and then JD Foods, this approximately 5000 square foot general store looks like it was in business for a very long time. JD Foods, which took over West Main around 2010, closed around 2023, shortly after I took this picture back in 2021. Tomorrow, we'll round out The Market Report's look at this region with two stops in Keene!

Hannaford Opened: 2016 Owner: Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants: Stop & Shop (closed 2013) Cooperative: none Location: 7 Kilton Rd, Bedford, NH Photographed: August 16, 2025 This one isn't quite so obvious as the Exeter location, but this Hannaford is a former Super Stop & Shop. Unlike Exeter, this roughly 70,000 square foot location got a major overhaul after Stop & Shop closed in 2013 (and pulled out of all of New Hampshire). Hannaford didn't open until 2016, and ironically, this store's opening date was just about a month before Ahold and Delhaize merged, bringing Hannaford and Stop & Shop under the same ownership. This store was at the time -- and, by all indications, seems to still be -- a flagship location for the chain. It's much larger than most Hannafords, and has a slightly different layout. The Super Stop & Shop layout featured a wide selection of nonfoods (a wider selection than Hannaford has), so Hannaford used a lot of the sales fl...

Market Basket Opened:  2012 Owner: Demoulas family Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 460 Elm St, Manchester, NH Photographed: January 8, 2025 The city of Manchester has seen a lot of growth and development in recent years, and one example is this Market Basket on a formerly industrial property just south of downtown. This massive supermarket, which measures about 100,000 square feet (making it one of the largest in New Hampshire), was built from the ground up in 2012, and you can see an example of some of the new construction in the area right behind it. Directly across the street from this supermarket is a small Himalayan food store, which you can see more about here . Tomorrow, The Market Report heads to the southern Manchester suburb of Bedford!

Himalayas General Store Opened: 2012 Owner: Radhika Acharya Previous Tenants: non-grocery tenants Cooperative: none Location: 359 Elm St, Manchester, NH Photographed: January 8, 2025 How familiar are you with Bhutanese food? Scratch that, how familiar are you with Bhutan? The tiny Himalayan country isn't particularly well-known here in the west, but there are small pockets of Bhutanese communities in New York and Montana. Queens, NY is home to America's only dedicated Bhutanese grocery store, but here in Manchester, a Bhutanese-American immigrant has opened the small Himalayas General Store with foods from various Himalayan countries. There's just a few aisles here, and the focus is on packaged foods (probably ones that will keep for longer, as even though there's a small Himalayan community here, it's not enough to support a full-size supermarket). Let's face it, Manchester isn't exactly the metropolis that New York City is, though its population is ...

Market Basket Opened: 2011 Owner: Demoulas family Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 30 Market Dr, Hooksett, NH Photographed: May 22, 2025 Unlike the tiny, dated Concord Market Basket we saw a while back, this Hooksett one is more typical of the family-owned chain. It was constructed in 2011 with all the bells and whistles of a modern MB, and it spans around 80,000 square feet -- a more standard footprint for the chain than the tiny one in Concord of just a quarter of that size. The layout is standard for a Market Basket, with dairy on the left side. Cheese, deli, and seafood are at the back of the first aisle, with meat lining the back wall. Frozen foods, beer/wine, and produce are on the right side, and the bakery and Market's Kitchen/Market's Cafe sections are in the front-right corner. Beer and wine are commonly sold in New Hampshire supermarkets, but less common in other nearby states like Massachusetts. Hard liquor is only sold in state-run liquor s...