Market Basket
This store is very big -- 75,000 square feet -- and still feels brand-new despite being five years old.
Part of that is the, shall we say, timeless interior design. It looks exactly like the ca. 1950s store across the river. But another part of that, as I mention on that post, is the impeccable maintenance.
This store is set up as a mirror image to the Wood Street store, with dairy in the first aisle on the right side. Deli and seafood are in the back-right corner, with meat on the rest of the back wall. Frozen and produce are on the left side, and bakery, prepared foods, and floral are at the front of the produce department. On the front wall are Market's Cafe and a seating area.
This cheese island is practically the size of the entire dairy department over at Wood Street. Okay, I might be exaggerating slightly. But not much.
Don't let these few pictures fool you. The store was packed when I visited, and per Placer.ai gets 160,000 monthly visits. Even the tiny Wood Street store gets 63,000 visits a month. Now let's make some interesting comparisons. The Hannaford at Drum Hill in Chelmsford, just south of here, sees a very healthy 80,000 visits a month. The Market Basket in Chelmsford is much smaller than this store but still gets 150,000 visits a month. The Stop & Shop across the street from that Market Basket, a little over two miles south of this store but around the same size? 30,000 visits. Yikes. That means that this store sees more than five times as much traffic as a similarly-sized Stop & Shop just a couple minutes' drive away.
Unlike the Wood Street store, this one is spacious and extremely well-appointed. But like the Wood Street store, it's absolutely spotless. Look at how shiny that floor is!
Service butcher counter about halfway across the back wall of the store.
Looking back towards the dairy side of the store...
And frozen foods are in the last few aisles on the left side of the store. Produce, along with ice cream, is in the last aisle.
This store's produce looked really good, and why shouldn't it be -- the turnover here is incredible.
Ice cream is on the outside of the front of the produce department, with nuts and floral in the middle islands.
And a look across the bakery and Market's Kitchen...
There's the usual selection of several hefty prepared foods counters, including subs and paninis, salads to order, pizza, sushi, and hot food.
A look across the front-end...
And the very attractive cafe in the front corner.
Opened: 2020
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Owner: DeMoulas family
Previous Tenants: none
Cooperative: none
Location: 90 Old Ferry Rd, Lowell, MA
Photographed: August 23, 2025
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Across the Merrimack from the tiny Wood Street store, which is today's other post that you can visit here, is a sprawling, brand-new Market Basket that opened in 2020. If the store looks familiar, that's because a contributor sent in a photo of the store a while back, so we have seen the outside before. Also, all Market Baskets look the same, so there's that, too.
Don't forget to see the much smaller and older Wood Street store here, and tomorrow we're off to a small supermarket between these two locations!
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