Hannaford - Bucksport, ME

Hannaford
Opened: early 00s

Owner: Ahold Delhaize

Previous Tenants: Braun's Red & White (early 1960s) > Doug's Shop 'n Save (opened 1965) > Bucksport Shop 'n Save (converted to Hannaford early 00s)

Cooperative: none

Location: 370 Main St, Bucksport, ME

Photographed: June 11, 2022

The small town of Bucksport -- population 5,000 -- is right at the northern end of the Penobscot Bay. It's where the bay and its islands meet the mainland, and where the Penobscot River meets the bay. If you're driving north on route 1 through this area, you actually have to briefly leave the mainland to enter Verona Island via the incredibly scenic Penobscot Narrows Bridge, then you reenter the mainland just next to this Hannaford.

A supermarket of around 26,000 square feet, this Bucksport Hannaford appears to have been built in the early 1960s as a Red & White (though generally Red & White stores didn't build new, so it's possible there was another chain here previously like Finast). In 1965, it became a Shop 'n Save, which then became Hannaford in the early 2000s.

Here's a look inside this Hannaford, although that picture is from 2018 so it's likely the store has been redone since. Also make sure to check out the other grocer in town here. And that brings us to the end of this region of Maine! Tomorrow, come back for a special post for the latest installment of The Market Report's 10th year celebration, and then we continue moving north along the coastline. See you soon!