The Market Report

Market Basket Opened: ca. 1990 Owner:  Demoulas family Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  25 Storey Ave, Newburyport, MA Photographed:  August 20, 2025 Right around the corner from yesterday's Shaw's is the Market Basket in Newburyport. At around 60,000 square feet, it's about 10,000 square feet larger than the Shaw's, and is much higher-volume. Still, the two have coexisted for at least about 20 years. This Market Basket opened around 1990, and doesn't appear to have moved from elsewhere in town. The interior appears to be a pretty straightforward Market Basket, and this store appears to have the prepared foods and bakery setup of Salem -- missing the cafe and seating area that newer stores have. That makes me think the store probably hasn't been remodeled since it opened. Can you believe that we only have one more store in Massachusetts to visit? That's tomorrow's post, so come back to wrap up the state!

Shaw's Opened: unknown Owner:  Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  45 Storey Ave, Newburyport, MA Photographed:  July 7, 2023 Newburyport is known for its scenic waterfront and quaint downtown on the Merrimack River, but The Market Report isn't in town for any of that! Instead, today we're to the northwest of downtown to visit the local Shaw's, one of two supermarkets in town. The other is a Market Basket literally next door to this one, which we'll take a quick look at tomorrow. A word of advice: if you come to Newburyport for one thing, make it the waterfront downtown, not the Shaw's. While there's certainly nothing wrong with this Shaw's, even I can't recommend it as a destination. It's nice, and newly renovated, but looks exactly like every other recently-renovated Shaw's out there. We enter to the grand aisle on the right side of the store, with produce in the front-right corner. Deli and prepa...

Tendercrop Farm Opened: 1995 Owner:  Matthew Kozazcki Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  108 High Rd, Newbury, MA Photographed:  July 7, 2023 A quick look today at another Tendercrop Farm, whose Wenham location we recently took a look inside. The Newbury location is the original Tendercrop, opening in 1995. Like Wenham, this is part greengrocer, part farmstand, part butcher, part greenhouse/garden center, and part working farm. Unfortunately, I don't have any interior pictures of this store, but you can see inside the produce barn here . (I was only driving by, unfortunately, and it was after the store had closed for the day when I took the above picture.) We're a couple miles outside Newburyport here, which is the larger town in this area on the Merrimack River. That's where tomorrow's store will be, so come back to check it out!

LIDL Opened: February 25, 2026 Owner:  Schwarz Group Previous Tenants:  Bed Bath & Beyond Cooperative:  none Location:  460 3rd Ave, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  February 27, 2026 Another new NYC LIDL! Like the Park Slope one, which opened recently, this new store in Manhattan's Kips Bay neighborhood (on the east side, slightly below Midtown East) is in a basement. The space was previously home to Bed Bath & Beyond, and now LIDL has claimed the approximately 21,000 square foot space as their own. As is true in Park Slope, only a foyer with escalators and an elevator is at street level. The rest of the supermarket is in the basement. And because it's a basement store, the space is, well, weird. Just like every other supermarket in New York City. So here's a fire exit plan, and I've added the basic department layout to give you an idea. (Ignore the arrows -- they're for the fire exit paths, not the shopping flow.) So we start with produce at the front, t...