Hannaford - Bedford, NH (Kilton Rd)

Hannaford
Opened: 2016

Owner: Ahold Delhaize

Previous Tenants: Stop & Shop (closed 2013)

Cooperative: none

Location: 7 Kilton Rd, Bedford, NH

Photographed: August 16, 2025

This one isn't quite so obvious as the Exeter location, but this Hannaford is a former Super Stop & Shop. Unlike Exeter, this roughly 70,000 square foot location got a major overhaul after Stop & Shop closed in 2013 (and pulled out of all of New Hampshire). Hannaford didn't open until 2016, and ironically, this store's opening date was just about a month before Ahold and Delhaize merged, bringing Hannaford and Stop & Shop under the same ownership.

This store was at the time -- and, by all indications, seems to still be -- a flagship location for the chain. It's much larger than most Hannafords, and has a slightly different layout. The Super Stop & Shop layout featured a wide selection of nonfoods (a wider selection than Hannaford has), so Hannaford used a lot of the sales floor space for a much larger grand aisle.

Produce, including deluxe features like a fresh-cut fruit counter, is in the front-right corner. Meat, seafood, and deli service counters are at the back of the grand aisle, with cheese on the back wall. A large prepared foods department and bakery are in an island facing towards the grocery aisles -- which is to say, in the picture of the produce department below, bakery and prepared foods are on the back of the green wall to the left, and the grocery aisles are beyond that.

Beer and wine are in the last aisle all the way on the left side of this unusually large Hannaford, with pharmacy and HABA in the front-left corner. Throughout the store, there are unusually deluxe touches like a large seating area, an expanded cheese counter, and more prepared foods choices than most locations -- though the prepared foods selection has, like most supermarkets', been scaled back significantly since Hannaford opened here (and that includes during COVID).

Here, you can see how the bakery and kitchen departments face towards the grocery aisles.

Check out the massive "KITCHEN" lettering on this awning. Pretty cool!

Though, again, most of this department seems to have been either closed or switched to packaged items made off-site.

This spacious wine department is likely a way for Hannaford, which is accustomed to stores much smaller than this, to effectively use large parts of the sales floor. It works well, because it comes off as deluxe, not desperate.

Another Hannaford of about half this size (just over 35,000 square feet) is across town. Tomorrow, The Market Report moves northwest to Hillsborough!