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Granite City Market Opened: 2024 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants: non-grocery tenants Cooperative: none Location: 220 N Main St, Barre, VT Photographed: August 13, 2025 This is one of two small grocers in downtown Barre, and it's very different from the other, AR Market . While that one is an upscale Italian specialty grocer, this one is a small, 3,000 square foot market that sells a small selection of discounted items. It opened in 2024 . This store has a small selection of basics from C&S under the Best Yet brand, but it's not a full supermarket so it's not exactly a full line of groceries. Another smaller grocer called Quality Market is just outside of town, and a bit further, there's a Hannaford, a Shaw's, a Market 32, and a Walmart Supercenter. One thing to note about Granite City Market is that it's not Granite City Grocery. That was an effort to start a cooperatively owned grocery store here in Barre, launched in 2012 but dissolved before the s...

AR Market Opened: 2020 Owner: Peter Roscini Colman Previous Tenants: furniture store Cooperative:  none Location: 159 N Main St, Barre, VT Photographed: August 13, 2025 Happy October, and as you've probably noticed, I've redesigned The Market Report's homepage! I'm still tweaking it a bit, but I hope you like it, and please let me know what you think. Now for today's post. It's a bit of a change to go from the general stores we've seen the last two days to this store, AR Market, whose name stands for Alimentari Roscini (and that was the full name of the store for a couple years). As you might have guessed from that name, it's an Italian specialty market. This 10,000 square foot building is also home to Pearl Street Pizza and Vermont Salumi, which are all under the same ownership. And that would be Peter Roscini Coleman, who opened this store in 2020. There are a few aisles of specialty imported groceries and some fresh items, plus a deli and prepare...