Market Basket

We shop here on a regular basis since it closest to home by many miles. This particular Market Basket if often out of specials, and I’ve been told several times that they get what the main office sends them. (For instance, they never did get the Jonah crab or the snow crab that were advertised in their flyers.) I presume the stores closer to the home office get better supplied. The selection is average and the prices better than average.

One of the nicest supermarkets between Concord and Hanover NH. Clean, well-​lit, with wide open shelves, a kick-​butt produce section and a huge meat and seafood area.
Went there to find an alternative to my local walking-​distance grocer in New London and was pleasantly surprised. A superb location right off the Interstate for the Winter-​adverse. A huge fresh vegetable selection. Frozen foods galore. And both vegetarian and vegan groceries.
Open until late for the working crowd.

I like this store. I live about equal distance between this store and the Hannafords in New London, I prefer this place hands down. The store is always clean, the help is pleasant, and they have everything that I need at pretty good prices. I’d give the managers an A. Earlier this year, the corporation was having a power struggle, the employees were getting a petition to retain the current CEO… now that’s pretty good loyalty in this day. It does get busy on the weekend, but that is common for NH. About the only downside is the entrance/​exit gets a little crowded with a gas station and a McDonalds using the same driveway, but that’s not MB’s fault. All in all a great place to shop.

Easy access from Route 89. This is a large, well laid out Market Basket with plenty of open checkout aisles each time I’ve been there. I always have a good shopping experience here.

Basically a Safeway (or Vons for those west coasters out there) with an average selection. Good if you need the basics, not so good if you’re looking for boutique, homemade or organic items.
Fair warning — it’s absolutely packed on the weekend.

Great prices. Decent selection as compared to Shaw’s and Price Chopper

I can’t believe how lame this place is. I’d give anything to have Hannafords or Shaws here instead — or almost any full size market.
MB is always out of the items I want. Today no regular yeast, unless I want the two pound jar. Sure there’s the bread machine yeast, but I need the regular. More on baking items. No cake flour? No regular yeast?
They are out of items so much that I frequently buy extra of something so I’ll have it when I need it since I can’t depend on Market Basket.
The deli /​fish counter stinks and I cringe walking within 50 feet of it. If my refrigerator smelled like that I’d throw it out.
I end up annoyed and disappointed every time I shop here. We’re luck to have a market at all, but the management here needs to wake up. The employees are good people and I like them individually, but the home office seems unaware of what people need. They are aware good pricing is important, but when the items are out of stock, or the quality isn’t there, I don’t care about their wonderful prices.
The meat dept. is just barely adequate for minimal cooking as long as one doesn’t want really good meat. No specialties available whatever. The produce is worse. The veggies are beat up and poorly stored so they go bad very fast. Too many veggies look like they were used for kickball before going into the case. Limited selection of veggies. I especially love it when I see employees slamming food into the bins. They’re kids and no one has trained them to be gentle with veggies.
In the front window area the carts are packed together obstructing access to the windows. Nothing wrong wit that per se, but every once in a while I see employees climbing up and standing on the handles of the carts by the front windows to access banners in windows. Do I really want to have floor and street grime on the handles I touch? It creeps me out that they have the baby seating on the carts, but do I need to have them walk around their bathroom then plant their grimy feet all over the cart handles?
It just goes on and on like that. Too many issues to list here. Cheap rattling carts. Specials bins with their regular pricing on them. Illegible pricing on the highest shelf so only a tall person can read the unit price. Baggers who will try to put six or seven big soda bottles in one flimsy plastic bag which immediately rips and dumps my groceries all over the pavement outside the store. Weird placement of items. Like the frozen pizza dough in the frozen fish case. Like someone would want pizza smelling like fish.