The Market Report

Hannaford Opened: unknown Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  Shop 'n Save (opened 1994) Cooperative:  none Location:  333 Massachusetts Ave, Lunenburg, MA Photographed:  April 7, 2023 Welcome to the Lunenburg Hannaford, the only one in Worcester County that wasn't previously a Victory Market (let me know if I'm wrong about that, but as far as I can find, this is it). It was constructed next to a department store that's now a Walmart -- I would imagine it was originally an Ames or something like that -- as a Shop 'n Save that opened in 1994, and I don't know when it switched to Hannaford although it was before 2008. It's 52,000 square feet -- a bit smaller than the Twin City Mall one in Leominster , three miles southwest. But it has the same decor package and same beautiful look overall, and feels like a very new store. Obviously, much more upscale than the Market Basket a little over a mile away , but there isn't a particularly large price gap be...

Would you believe that even though we're nearing the border of New Hampshire, and most of what we just passed through was forests, mountains, and reservoirs, we're still within Worcester County? We're about 20 miles north of Worcester here -- a long way in a small state -- to visit the Montachusett Region, the area surrounding Fitchburg, which is the largest city in this area. Leominster (pronounced Lemon-ster) is about eight miles north of Clinton , where we saw several stores over the last few days . We're going to start near the southern end of Leominster, then move north through the town before we cross into Fitchburg for a few more stores. Then we'll go just northeast of Fitchburg to make one stop in the small town of Lunenburg. There aren't a whole lot of stores up here, so we won't spend that long in this area, just about two and a half weeks. And once we're done with that, it's off east to the Lowell area. In the meantime, have a good weeken...