Steeple Market Opened: unknown Owner: Pierre Menard Previous Tenants: unknown Cooperative: none Location: 1098 Main St, Fairfax, VT Photographed: August 12, 2025 What an unusual store! The only grocer here in Fairfax is this unique market, which really looks like it is located in a converted church. The interesting thing is that I don't honestly know if it is or not. Historic street views show the building under construction in 2009. I don't know if that's when the store was built from scratch or simply extensively renovated, but it looks like that followed a big fire the previous year . The store is a small but full supermarket, with the registers up at the front. Produce and dairy line the first aisle on the right side of the store, with meat and deli at the back. Grocery aisles, beer/wine, and frozen foods are on the left side of the store. As we've seen with so many of these small-town stores, this one has an abundant selection of locally made products, though...
Hannaford Opened: 2013 Owner: Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 259 US-7, Milton, VT Photographed: August 14, 2025 Today's post is a quick look at this Hannaford here in Milton, Vermont, which was constructed as a new-build location in 2013. The store is just under 50,000 square feet, and here's a look inside. (It looks like it's been renovated once since it opened, or maybe only a few departments have gotten some updates.) The store moved from a previous location on the same property but a few doors down, which is a roughly 33,000 square foot store that had previously been home to a Grand Union. Now, it's been subdivided. And in poking around aerial photos of this strip mall, I think it's even possible that store replaced yet an older store in the same mall that's now a Walgreens. That store is around 15,000 square feet. Milton is about halfway between Saint Albans and Burlington, and while we will eventually circle bac...