The Market Report

Henry's Market Opened: 2001 Owner: Gene Guertin Previous Tenants: Salem's Market (1911-2001) Cooperative: none Location:  831 Main St, Bennington, VT Photographed: August 8, 2021 Welcome to Bennington! This is the first time The Market Report visits this city in the far southwestern corner of the Green Mountain State, around five miles to the New York border and around double that to Massachusetts. There's a couple of chain supermarkets just outside of town, but Bennington has had a long history of small corner stores filling grocery needs (more on that soon). So for more than a century, this grocer at the corner of Main and South Branch has sold food. For 90 of those years, it was Salem's Market, before being sold in 2001 and becoming Henry's Market. It's a small market of just about 3500 square feet, but there's a lot here starting with produce at the front and some cheeses next to that. Smoked meats are a house specialty (the bacon is perfection, and...

Henry's Market Opened: 2015 under current ownership; 1941 previously Owner:  Jim Crosby / Crosby's Marketplace Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Associated Grocers of New England Location:  588 Cabot St, Beverly, MA Photographed:  May 14, 2022 In business since 1941, Henry's Market of Beverly, MA is definitely one of the longest-standing grocers in this area -- though not the oldest operating one . Expanded many times to its present 18,000 square feet, the supemarket was taken over in 2015 by the owners of Crosby's Marketplace . Crosby's has mostly left the store as-is, but has brought some of the higher-end prepared foods and other more gourmet offerings into their other locations. The building is laid out a bit strangely because of the many expansions, but it's an attractive and well-run supermarket. The first department we encounter is the produce department, in the front section with some very nice skylights bringing natural light into the rustic-style...