The Market Report

Hannaford Opened: between 1998 and 2003 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  174 1st New Hampshire Tpk, Northwood, NH Photographed:  January 8, 2025 Hello and welcome to our first store in New Hampshire! A side note: I'm trying a slightly different post format now, so please let me know what you think and I'm going to continue to tinker with the exact setup. (As an aside, the pictures are now slightly smaller, so click on any of them to enlarge.) I don't know much about the history of this Hannaford, but it was built between 1998 and 2003. It's about 36,000 square feet. Produce is in the front-right corner with bakery and deli in the rest of the first aisle, then meat and seafood on the back wall. There's also a few short aisles in the middle of the grand aisle, and pharmacy/HABA are in the first few aisles. Dairy/frozen are on the left side along with beer. It's a really nice store and it also appears to have been recentl...

  Welcome back from summer break! The Market Report now comes to New Hampshire (or, technically, returns ) with a look at the kind of middle of the state. We'll visit a couple stores in Northwood, about 20 miles inland from Portsmouth, then pass through the city of Concord and then turn north towards Laconia. While we're in this area, we'll also take a stop by West Lebanon, which is right on the border of Vermont. This is a short group -- New Hampshire has not that many supermarkets, of course, because it's generally a small and rural/wilderness state -- and I simply haven't spent that much time here. So come back tomorrow for a look at a small-town Hannaford! Plus, during summer break... Here's what you may have missed: New posts! Patel Brothers and Shaw's each remodel Massachusetts locations Check on work wrapping up at SuperFresh and Food Universe stores H Mart reopens a New Jersey store Visit a brand-new South Jersey ShopRite See two new locations of a...

Extra, a small Newark-area chain, has been rather active lately. Let's take a look at all of their stores to see what's going on! Click on any picture to expand it. Before we begin, though... why are there two Extra Supermarket chains in the Newark area? If you read my previous posts, I usually attempt to explain the split, but rarely come up with a good explanation not having all the inside information. Here's the best I can do with what's publicly available. Extra started in the 80s in East Orange, adding a few locations across the greater Newark area over time. Apparently, it was a family business, with two relatives basically running the whole thing. And it seems they split in 2018. So Mitchel Lopez, who seems to be one of those relatives, kept stores in Newark's Central Ward and Jersey City (adding one in Elizabeth later). Lopez also owns City Supermarkets . while Maplewood, East Orange, and the store in Newark's Weequahic neighborhood were taken over by an...