Hannaford Supermarkets

This is a huge Hanniford! Just huge compared to the one near me. You can find just about anything you could want. I was vegan for 7 years and it makes me smile to see all the vegan products that they carry. They have a great produce section. Just about anything. I even found collard greens which I was afraid I could no longer get this far north. They have a wonderful cheese section. Just about any kind you can think of. It covers I believe 4 deli cases full. They have a sushi spot with real Japanese people (bad Chinese experience with only non Asian people, don’t trust non ethnic people at ethnic restaurants). They even had vegan sushi with brown rice! Meat section has all kinds of stuff as well as the fish, bread and deli sections. Vegans, you are represented in the dairy and freezer sections as well. I remember when daiya was mail order only and veganaise was as well. Health and beauty has all those natural products you could only get at speciality natural stores. This is our splurge store since there is just so much great stuff.

Shopped here for food and essentials while staying in Maine and found everything we needed (including diabetics items) and fresh vegetables and fruits. Plenty of parking and friendly helpful cashiers and a nice laid back atmosphere and wheelchair accessible, of course!

Real decent grocery store up on the Maine coast. Hannaford’s is from Maine so you would expect the best here and you do get that. Plenty of parking, good number of checkouts in operations, and all the things you could think you need when up at your cottage.
And, even though there are plenty of seafood places about to get fish and the like, the fresh scallops and tuna would be good from here as well.
Definitely the place for the main Maine (hehe) food shopping even with the improvements to the Boothbay Harbor store.

The employees didn’t know anything about their store, and their prices are a little high. Store is semi clean, but it’s the only grocery store I seen in town

This place is big. It’s the size of some smaller Wal-​Marts.
The décor for the produce area where you enter the store is one thing that must be highlighted. The two fake trees really made me think that it was not a huge chain on my first visit this year, but them I remembered it’s a huge store, part of a huge chain, and it has some huge flaws.
They have 40+ sodas but don’t carry any italian soda or cane sugar Coca Cola or Pepsi. Shaved Parmigiano Reggiano, nope. Barbara’s Puffins Cereal, also no.
They lack just about every specialty and moderately specialty food you’d want. It’s just an inefficient use of space to not carry any specialty foods.
For some that lack of specialty foods may be made up by their liquor selection. They have many beers, micro, local, major brands and they have a heavy emphasis on seasonal. They also have a quite respectable selection of lower midrange to low priced wines including the major brands and some smaller ones. The liquor range is decidedly on the low end of the range, they carry Johnny Walker Black Label (no Blue) and Patron Silver only in less than full size bottles. I keep 1.75 liter bottles of both at home and not even seeing half that size is pathetic, especially when they are the primary liquor store in town.
The staff are also subpar, having trouble finding their ID Checking book and thusly delaying me by five minutes on the first occasion and 10 on the second. It’s not as though I live in another country, just another state. Out of the four staff members I interacted with in these two instances (two people are required to check an out-​of-​state ID) only one apologized for the delay.
This place slips away with two stars because they still perform the job of having everything that a regular grocery store carries, save for a few supposed specialty foods.
If you’re willing to spend a little more for a better grocery store that is locally owned with nicer employees you should consider Yellow Front Grocery, and for the specialty foods Rising Tide Coop works quite well.

So here we were. 10 days in Maine in this neat sea side cottage and now it’s time to fill the fridge. Where to go? Hanna who? Never heard of them. But when I get there, it exceeeeeds all of my expectations. First of all, the meat dept was great and cheap! Chicken, beef whatever! And, I’m from the «Peoples Republic of Massachusetts», so I’m not used to being able to buy beer, wine AND Liquor in the same store! Imagine at checkout… Bread, Eggs, Jose Quervo… SHut Up! Everything here is awesome!

The store is poorly organized, and general overpriced. Fresh vegetables are at a premium all winter and good luck getting simple green beans. They carry more and more of the company brands and less of the quality stuff. The bright side is that most of the help is great… the locals anyway. Managers walk around and seem disconnected from reality

This Hannaford is crazy. Even Bobbi’s review doesn’t do it justice. The scope of things like gourmet beer, local Maine cheeses, incredible seafood products, and gluten-​free stuff in the big «natural» section is just spectacular. Also, great employees and a really nice Maine vibe. I love this Hannaford. Why isn’t there something like this in Park Slope? I am actually embarrassed to admit that I do something I call the «Hannaford Dance,» that’s how happy I am to be at Hannaford. Frozen, gluten free pizza crust? Organic Mirin (rice cooking wine)? Smoked Alaskan Salmon? Organic gluten free cookie dough ice cream? The National Enquirer? Check! Love it!