Hannaford - Augusta, ME (Cony St)

Hannaford
Opened: 2009

Owner: Ahold Delhaize

Previous Tenants: none

Cooperative: none

Location: 118 Cony St, Augusta, ME

Photographed: August 12, 2019

Welcome to one of the Hannafords in Augusta! Of the chain supermarkets in town, this is actually the smallest, coming in around 50,000 square feet (the Shaw's in town is closer to 70,000 square feet and the other Hannaford is even larger, at just under 75,000 square feet). It's also the newest supermarket in Augusta.

This store was built from the ground up in 2009, replacing an older location a couple blocks away. More on that soon. I assume, though I'm not sure, that it hasn't been renovated since opening, and I'm not sure whether it's been remodeled since I took these pictures in 2019.

As we can see, even a decade after its opening, it still looked practically like a brand-new store. I don't know how it's held up in the subsequent years, but it's a really nice supermarket.

It's a standard Hannaford layout with produce in the front-right corner and the rest of the grand aisle behind it -- beer and wine on one side, with deli and bakery on the other. Meat and seafood line the back wall, and dairy/frozen are on the left side. Pharmacy and HABA are in the front-left corner.

You can also see that this store is very fully stocked, especially the perishables departments. It looks like it does a brisk business.

Beer and wine behind produce, with the service departments lining the outside of the grand aisle...

One slight difference in layout here: prepared foods and cheeses are on the back wall to the left of deli, when I feel like I see them to the right of deli more often.

Looking back across that whole area...

You can tell this was a bit of a deluxe store. It looks like they spared no expense for the decor and construction.

Then again, this is Hannaford's home territory. We're about 60 miles from Hannaford's home base in Scarborough, ME.

These days, some of this decor is looking a little dated. But the facility is really nice and with some small cosmetic upgrades, it could look essentially like a new supermarket again.

This store has a number of skylights and large windows, which help it feel very bright and open.

Dairy and frozen on the left side of the store. You can see the windows up high that let in light...

This area is also where nonfoods and pharmacy are.

And a look across the front-end...

This seems to be a bit of a flagship store (or maybe it was when it opened) for Hannaford, given the inclusion of some unusual things like this mission statement in the entry foyer. I don't know what the purpose of the setup here is beyond just decor, but the walkway in front of these signs was blocked off as you can see below.

Now for a look at the store this one replaced...

Original Grocery Tenant: Shop 'n Save

Address: 7 Willow St, Augusta, ME

Opened: by 1969

Closed: early 00s

Later Tenants: Hannaford (early 00s-2009)

Photographed: June 13, 2022

Shop 'n Save was open here by 1969, converting to Hannaford in the early 2000s. A few years later, the store was replaced. You can see the similarities to other Shop 'n Save stores of the same era, such as Bucksport.

This store was demolished after I took these pictures. Unfortunately, we can't get a great look inside, but we can see some...

...enough that it's clear this was a supermarket. You can see where the registers were on the floor, for instance.

The foyer remained fully intact, though. It's a bit of a surprise that this store sat empty for as long as it did -- over ten years -- before it was demolished for a police station.

We're not done with Augusta yet! Tomorrow, we're headed west of downtown to see another former supermarket -- but this one has remained intact, not demolished. See you tomorrow!