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Londonderry Village Market - Londonderry, VT

Londonderry Village Market Opened: 2019 Owner:  Associated Grocers of New England Previous Tenants:  Clark's Quality Foods IGA (1975-2019) Cooperative: Associated Grocers of New England Location: 5700 VT-100, Londonderry, VT Photographed: August 10, 2021 Down the road from Mike & Tammy's is Londonderry's full service supermarket. From 1975 until the store's sale in 2019, this 25,000 square foot supermarket was Clark's IGA . When Clark's owners retired, they sold the store to Associated Grocers of New England. This is now one of a handful of corporate-owned stores that the cooperative runs, along with some other Village Market stores in Vermont and others like Vista Foods . This is the first of several Village Market stores that I'll be posting. It doesn't look like AGNE did much renovation when they moved in, and truthfully the store doesn't really need it. It's not brand-new but a very nice small-town grocer. Produce and bakery are on t...
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Mike & Tammy's Food Market - Londonderry, VT

Mike & Tammy's Food Market Opened: 2006 Owner: Tammy Clough Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location: 2170 N Main St, Londonderry, VT Photographed: August 12, 2021 Welcome to another Vermont general store, or at least another general store-style grocer! I don't know if this one is actually a longtime general store or just kind of feels like one, but this small grocer in Londonderry has been open since 2006. It's part small-town grocer, part ice cream shop, and part deli. This isn't the only grocer in Londonderry, though, and there's a larger supermarket just down the street. That's where The Market Report will be headed tomorrow, so come back to tour it!

Smitty's Chester Market - Chester, VT

Smitty's Chester Market Opened:  2020 Owner: Garrison Smith Previous Tenants:  general store (1847-1993) > Lisai's Market (1993-2020) Cooperative: Associated Grocers of New England Location: 526 Depot St, Chester, VT Photographed:  August 10, 2021 There's something quintessentially New England about an old-school general store, operating continuously since 1847, right next to the train tracks. That's what we're seeing here at Smitty's Chester Market in the small town of Chester, Vermont, though over the years the store has been expanded to a small supermarket of around 7500 square feet. It was various general stores for the first century and a half or so of its life, becoming Lisai's Market in 1993 joining an older location in Bellows Falls . Lisai's sold the store to its current owners in 2020. And although the inside is a fully-functioning small supermarket, it still retains a lot of its history. You can get a clear sense of that (plus the layout...