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Shaw's - Stowe, VT

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Shaw's Opened: 2001 Owner: Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants: Grand Union (ca. 1970s-2001) Cooperative: none Location: 751 Maple St, Stowe, VT Photographed: August 10, 2025 In New Jersey, my home state, the majority of the Grand Union stores that closed in the chain's 2001 bankruptcy went to Stop & Shop. In upstate New York, a lot went to Tops. In the lower Hudson Valley, Key Food took over quite a few locations. Here in Vermont, though, many transitioned to Shaw's. Here's a look at another (I've previously posted locations in Montpelier , Manchester , and Wilmington ). Like Montpelier and Wilmington, this store is tiny. In fact, at just over 12,000 square feet, I believe this is the smallest Shaw's in the chain, and one of the smallest stores owned by Albertsons Companies. As I mentioned on the previous posts, though, there's not really an opportunity to expand or rebuild elsewhere, so this very old-school store keeps going. Produce is up in t...
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Stowe Village Market - Stowe, VT

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Stowe Village Market Opened: 2023 Owner: Associated Grocers Northeast Previous Tenants: Mac's Market (closed 2023) Cooperative: Associated Grocers Northeast Location: 88 S Main St, Stowe, VT Photographed: August 10, 2025 Another grocery store not just supplied by, but owned by, Associated Grocers Northeast (formerly Associated Grocers of New England, and recently rebranded) is the Stowe Village Market. As you've probably gathered, many of their Vermont stores are simply named Village Market with the town's name. This was part of a local chain called Mac's Market, which in 2023 went out of business and sold their remaining three stores to AGNE, including this one. It's just under 10,000 square feet and is right on the main street through Stowe. It's called Main Street, but it's also Vermont Route 100, which is kind of a corridor through this resort area. The year-round population here in Stowe is around 5200, but it's a large enough town to suppor...
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Woodstock Farmers Market - Waterbury Center, VT

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Woodstock Farmers Market Opened: 2019 Owner: Jack and Patrick Crowl Previous Tenants: Pete's Greens Farm Market Cooperative: none Location: 2802 Waterbury-Stowe Rd, Waterbury Center, VT Photographed: August 10, 2025 Food is a big draw in this part of Vermont. We're just up the street from the Ben & Jerry's factory, which is itself a tourist attraction where you can tour the plant, and up here in Waterbury Center there's also a Cabot Creamery store where you can sample and buy delicious local cheeses. And if you need some local produce to go with those cheeses and ice cream, you're in luck. Woodstock Farmers Market opened up here in 2019 replacing another farm market. (This 5,000 square foot store is the second Woodstock Farmers Market, with the first -- logically -- being located around 50 miles south in Woodstock .) This store isn't really a full supermarket, but there's a little of everything here. The produce is in the middle of the store, and a...
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Shaw's - Waterbury, VT

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Shaw's Opened: 2006 Owner: Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative: none Location: 820 Waterbury-Stowe Rd, Waterbury, VT Photographed: August 10, 2025 So as you can see, this is definitely up there with the worst supermarket pictures I've ever taken. Yes, there's a Shaw's back there, and it's a roughly 53,000 square foot store built from the ground up in 2006. Here's what the outside actually looks like, and some glimpses of the interior. This store is more than double the size of the other supermarket in town, which we toured yesterday and you can see here . And if you're coming to this stretch of Waterbury-Stowe Road from out of town, you're probably not here to visit the Shaw's but instead to visit Ben & Jerry's, whose factory is just across the street. You can tour and get samples. And these are the two grocers of Waterbury, but just north in Waterbury Center, about two miles north, is another specialty grocer th...
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