Market Basket - Lowell, MA (Centralville)

Market Basket

Opened: 2011, replacing older store on property

Owner: DeMoulas family

Previous Tenants: none

Cooperative: none

Location: 1201 Bridge St, Lowell, MA

Photographed: August 23, 2025

Happy Monday! Just a couple blocks east of the Dracut Hannaford is the final Market Basket in Lowell we haven't yet seen -- Store #2, in fact. We saw Store #1 (and stores #19 and #88) last week. I mentioned Chelmsford is Store #4, and so after some digging I found that store #3 was actually down in Wilmington, about 12 miles southeast. #5 was up in Lawrence, and... you know what, I'm writing this at 11 pm on a Thursday. I should stop with the rabbit hole.

So although this was one of the early locations, that doesn't mean (by Market Basket's numbering scheme) this actual building was the second Market Basket. This 67,000 square foot store, in fact, only opened in 2011, replacing an older store in the strip mall when it was constructed on the site of a closed Ames. I assume that that also replaced an older store when it opened, but I don't know where or when.

Here, dairy is on the left side, with cheese, deli, and seafood in the back-left corner. Meats line the back wall with frozen and produce on the right side. Bakery and a full Market's Kitchen are in the front-right corner, but I don't remember seeing a Market's Cafe here.

As usual, the store is spacious, spotless, and so boring.

I mentioned at the nearby Hannaford that the property of that store is on the border between Lowell and Dracut, and acutally so is this property, except it's on the Lowell side instead of the Dracut side. As was true at the Hannaford, we're very close to New Hampshire here, just about two and a half miles away from the border.

Looking across the back wall towards the frozen/produce side...

The grocery aisles, as usual, are pristine and well-stocked.

As this is a newer store than some of them we've seen in the last week or so, only part of the frozen foods department is in open single-tier cases. The majority is upright cases with doors, which is of course the standard in most new supermarkets these days.

Even though the produce department doesn't look that much different from the much older stores, you can feel that it's a newer building.

And ice cream and floral are in the front of the produce department...

Bakery and Market's Kitchen look up-to-date, but as I said, I don't believe there's a cafe here, which goes into most or all new stores.

Today, Market Basket has just under 100 locations in MA, RI, ME, and NH, and seems to be continuing to expand. They're certainly the local favorite around here.

As you can see, this setup looks almost identical to a brand-new store, even though it's 15 years old at this point.

And a look across the front-end before we wrap up Lowell...

I hope you all enjoyed this little jaunt back through Lowell and Dracut, and I'm glad I could post these stores we didn't get to the first time around. Tomorrow, we're headed back towards the Boston area for a look at the northeastern suburbs of the city!