Whole Foods Market - Nashua, NH (Amherst St)

Whole Foods Market

Opened: 2014

Owner: Amazon

Previous Tenants: Market Basket (1990-2013)

Cooperative: none

Location: 255 Amherst St, Nashua, NH

Photographed: October 10, 2021

Nashua's proximity to Boston and large commuter population makes it a great place for businesses to enter the state for the first time. This was Whole Foods' first New Hampshire store, opening in a former Market Basket in 2014. Market Basket almost never closes stores, and the only reason they did here was because they were able to replace this location with a massive new one just up the street, and at 85,000 square feet, that store dwarfs this 30,000 square foot one.

Produce is on the right side, with bakery in the back-right corner. Meat and seafood counters line the back wall with dairy in the back-left corner, frozen on the left side, and deli/prepared foods on the left side of the store. There's a bar and seating area in the front-left corner, with beer on tap and some food to-order, something that has been pulled out of many Whole Foods stores.

This isn't the only Market Basket-turned-Whole Foods we've seen. In fact, there's another just 15 miles south in Westford, MA.

Whole Foods now has a second location in town, down on Daniel Webster Highway in a planned but never opened Amazon Fresh. That'll be posted soon, but tomorrow we're taking a look at the grocery store right across the street from this one!