The Market Report

Monadnock Food Co-op Opened: 2013 Owner: cooperatively owned Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: National Co-op Grocers Location: 34 Cypress St, Keene, NH Photographed: August 13, 2021 This is not our first food co-op in New Hampshire, but like the Concord co-op, it's a beautiful store with an exciting mix of local and natural products. This store was built in 2013, and it's a new-build -- you can tell that the building, inside and out, still feels pretty new. The cooperative food scene is alive and well in New England, and this 20,000 square foot supermarket is as good an indication as any. You enter to produce on the left side, with dairy in the rest of the first aisle. Meat and seafood counters are on the back wall, along with packaged meats, while frozen foods are in the middle of the store. A large deli, prepared foods, and bakery area is on the right side of the store, along with a substantial cafe seating area. Since so many co-ops are set up this way, it feels in...

Concord Food Co-op Opened:  1993 in current location; 1982 previously Owner:  cooperatively owned Previous Tenants:  non-grocery tenants Cooperative:  National Co-op Grocers Location:  24 S Main St, Concord, NH Photographed:  January 8, 2025 Concord is home to the New Hampshire state capital -- and a seriously old-fashioned Market Basket . It's also had its own food co-op since 1982, which moved into the current location on Main Street in 1993. The supermarket then got a major remodel inside and outside around 2015. It's around 9,000 square feet, making it about half the size of the Market Basket a couple blocks away. Like many food co-ops in New England, this one focuses on natural and specialty foods, so it complements Market Basket more than competing with it. Produce is on the left side of the store in the first aisle, with bulk foods at the back of the first aisle. A large deli-bakery area along with cheese, prepared foods, and sushi take up the whole ...