The Market Report

Big Y Opened: October 2, 2025 Owner:  D'Amour family Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  250 S Main St, Uxbridge, MA Photographed:  October 14, 2025 Remember the town of Uxbridge, MA? It's been a little while, but it's home to a Hannaford (formerly Victory Markets) that I posted a year ago . That store got a renovation in 2023, possibly in advance of this Big Y. It's one of the relatively few recent new-build supemarkets of any brand in southern Worcester County -- we're about 20 miles southeast of Worcester here -- and the 55,000 square foot store is one of two central Mass locations to open this year (see Westborough here ). Big Y has been giving a big push towards renovations and new store construction, meaning that the vast majority of their store fleet are new and modern. That coupled with a particularly good program for local and specialty merchandising, a great perimeter, and improving prices has made Big Y a very powerful regional chai...

ST's General Store Owner: unknown Opened:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  110 Mendon St, Uxbridge, MA Photographed:  April 16, 2022 Today's snapshot is a quick look at ST's General Store, a small store of just about 1100 square feet (that's a very rough estimate) just outside of Uxbridge, where we toured the Hannaford yesterday. ST's looks like a small convenience/general store that's definitely been around for many decades. We only have one more store in this part of Worcester County, and we'll be taking a look at that tomorrow!

Hannaford Opened: 2004 Previous Tenants:  Victory Markets (closed 2004) Location:  158 N Main St, Uxbridge, MA Photographed:  September 4, 2021 There are no Hannafords in the immediate Worcester area (a shame, since I think generally Hannafords are run quite well), but there are a few in Worcester County. Most are up in the Montachusett region, in Fitchburg/Leominster, but we saw one in North Brookfield acquired from Victory Markets and here's another acquired Victory store towards the southern part of Worcester County. This store is just over 40,000 square feet, or about 10,000 square feet smaller than the Shaw's (its nearest competitor) about three miles north. As far as I can tell, it still doesn't have the latest Hannaford decor package, but it looks really good with the older one. Hannaford, in my experience, does a really good job of running these smaller-scale, small town stores across New England. They also have plenty of large stores, and we'll see multiple ...