Hannaford Opened: 2014 Owner: Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants: Stop & Shop (2006-2013) Cooperative: none Location: 141 Portsmouth Ave, Exeter, NH Photographed: January 8, 2025 Stop & Shop is a powerhouse in southern New England, and is the market leader in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and parts of Massachusetts. In other places, though, they haven't been as successful. In the mid-00s, they began building stores in the southern part of Vermont and New Hampshire, eventually having six New Hampshire stores. A location at 318 S Main St in Rutland, VT was constructed but never opened. That store along with two of the former New Hampshire stores became Hannaford -- opening in Rutland in 2007, and stores in Bedford and Exeter, NH became Hannafords in 2013. The parent companies of Hannaford and Stop & Shop merged in 2015. Many of these Super Stop & Shop stores were really big -- stores built at this time were as big as 90,000 square feet -- an...