The Market Report

Market Basket Opened: 2013 Owner:  DeMoulas family Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  8 Highland Common E, Hudson, MA Photographed:  July 7, 2024 It's time for our final stop in the central Middlesex County area! The Market Basket here in Hudson is the largest store in town, where we've also seen the Shaw's and Stop & Shop . At 75,000 square feet, this is nearly double the size of the much smaller Shaw's. It was built in 2013, so while it's over ten years old it still feels very new. Inside, it's exactly what we'd expect from a Market Basket. Spacious, clean, well-stocked, expansive, and completely boring. The dairy aisle is the first aisle, on the right side of the store. Seafood and deli are at the back of the first aisle with cold cuts in the second aisle, meats line the rest of the back wall, and produce is on the left side. Bakery and prepared foods are in the front-left corner. Market Basket stores get very crowded at busy time...

Shaw's Opened: 2017 Owner:  Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants:  Hannaford Cooperative:  none Location:  201 Washington St, Hudson, MA Photographed:  July 7, 2024 Time for another Shaw's! This one is an older store, but it's only actually been a Shaw's since 2017 when they acquired the store from Hannaford in the Ahold Delhaize merger update: I was wrong! It actually survived the merger despite how close it was to the Stop & Shop, but closed at the end of its lease term in early 2017 with Shaw's opening in May 2017. It's only around 40,000 square feet, about 20,000 square feet smaller than the Stop & Shop across the street, and feels significantly smaller. But it's also in better shape, and was renovated shortly after it opened. Still there, are quite a few reminders of the Hannaford past -- and I don't know who (if anyone) was here before Hannaford, but possibly Victory Markets. The produce department is decidedly better-stocked than Stop ...