I wanna go to the opening celebration but it will be a zoo. The traffic will be pretty congested, Rt 20 is not meant for that kind of volume. But it is great news.

I'm going to check it out just for fun!

Bye, bye Stop & Shop with that useless robot that is always in the way and your nonexistent customer service.

Where is it on 20?

Where the Edgmere Movie theatre was. There's also a Market Basket Liquors there

200 Hartford Turnpike, Shrewsbury, MA 01545

It's also possible MB will be so busy all the time that people will go back to S&S because it's faster.

It should be cheaper and in my experience the cashier lines are usually all open in stark contrast to S&S.

"Cassian there's a c-c-c-c- lean up in ailse .. . . ethtt thtree."

Market basket is the greatest supermarket chain in earth. I am excited to have it around the corner now

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Meh, I always hear good things about MB, but anything that moves into Shrewsbury will NOT be cheap. I can almost guarantee you that.

If you live in Shrewsbury, you pay Shrewsbury prices.

Yeah, they may be cheap today..but in 6 months...they will go up.

My parents are excited haha

Market Basket has the same pricing in every store regardless of location. No higher pricing in high income areas, no surge pricing in tourist areas during the high season.

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I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks. Hopefully I can save some grocery $$$

Prepare to get more for your dollar

I'm an ALDI man, plus it's still further away than the stores near me.

Just saw a new ALDI is opening soon as well

It’s sucks for us!

We were constantly going to the one in Hudson (or the one in Burlington, becuase hmart is right there as well) and we were so pumped for the MB to open on route 20. We’re so close, the car wouldn’t warm up on our drive over there that’s how short of a drive it would be.

But alas, we get three weeks of joy at that MB and we’re moving.

I hope whoever we rent our home to now has the joy of “ run to MB for veggies or bread” as opposed to the crappy price chopper on Sunderland.

Much cheaper than it would have been if it had to be in Worcester, and more enjoyable too.

As a counter point - The stop & shop in Shrewsbury has lower prices than the stop & shop in Lincoln plaza. Feels like predatory pricing to me.

Where? I am a huge fan of them. They don't have everything I need, but they have most of what I want.

I just got a new job out that way and this will be on my route home, super super stoked. It's so much closer then driving all the way out to Oxford!

Eggs are still $3 bucks at Market Basket!

Anyone know if they have wider aisles at this one? Forgot which one I visited but it was definitely crowded with narrow aisles during a random late morning weekday so I'll probably wait a few till the initial wave dies down but am excited to replace Stop & Shop.

When I go today I'll check it out!

No one, that whole area is going to be a fucking disaster with the traffic, they fuck everything up

Can somebody explain why people are so excited about this particular grocery store? What is so great about it?

And if it is so great, why don’t they have a location in Worcester? Do they not want the 200,000+ people who live here as customers?

So market basket's entire thing is "more for your dollar." Item prices are set to the same at all of their stores so you know what you're getting from place to place. Their very good about being well stocked and having a mix of high quality and good value foods.

The main reason I can think of why they're in Shrewsbury and not Worcester is taxes and shrewsbury being a central location for Boroughs, Grafton, and Worcester. (So 200k in worcester but there's also about 200k in all of those other towns combined)

Many people in worcester are already driving 20 minutes North to Leominster or south to Oxford. So driving 10 minutes west is easy enough.

Edit: there are about 100k in those towns combined not 200k

Also their customer service is typically fantastic, they're great at ensuring checkout lines are open.

Thanks for the explanation. Sounds like a good store, but I'm still surprised by the hype. It's just a grocery store.

If there were one in Worcester, I'd like to try it out. No way I'm driving to Shrewsbury for groceries, though. It baffles me that people would drive 20 minutes to a grocery store unless they have to, but to each their own.

When I've done come comparison shopping between price chopper and market basket, typically I'll save about $20-30 on the basics (without coupons or specials)

Ashland and Bellingham have narrow aisles. Hudson and Oxford which are newer are much wider. I think this will have wide aisles.

Are they actually going to hire people to do check out.. standing 20 minutes to buy weekly groceries ain’t it

Every Market Basket I've ever been to has had the majority of check out lanes open all day. When it's super busy they go all hands on deck and every lane is open. They're staffed with a teller and a bagger. I don't think they have any locations with self checkout.

B2 is adorable.

> a Market Basket Liquors there

Oh IS there??? I'm now interested.

It's just over the Worcester line.

They are very good at getting you checked out quickly.

👍👍

The aisles are much wider

I'm in Worcester and would gladly make the trip to Wegmans in Northborough without any hesitation. Once you find a good store, it's hard going anywhere else.

I've been going to the MB locations in Hudson and Westford for a long time now. Upon hearing that the Shrewsbury location was a thing, I was quite pleased that one would be closer to home. However, I don't think I'll be hitting this one just yet... Wait for the new store craze to die down after a month or so. I remember when Wegmans opened about 12 years ago. Total madhouse for a while.

Hmart is great! Have you checked out the Asian Supermarket aptly called Asian Super Market on Mill street In Worcester?

Thank you for your field report. I know it wasn't easy getting through that crowd today.

Grabbing just a basket was the right move

The DeMoulas treat their workers well too compared too other stores. Hell they had a strike when Arthur T. DeMoulas was fired.

Yep! It’s less organized than hmart and less selection, but still awesome enough for being 13 min from our house!!!

OP, care for a trip report? Was going to go today but thought damn that place is going to be packed !

This was around 1pm. It was moving, there weren't many parking spaces available but people were coming in at about the same rate.

There was someone at the entrance asking which town you were from. Every checkout was open and they even had temporary checkouts set up.

It looks like they're trying to compete with Wegmans and Total Wine. This location has the largest prepared food section I've seen. The liquor store was also really well stocked and pretty similar to the one in Waltham.

I only grabbed a few items but prices were the same as the other market baskets, so no changes there!

If I remember correctly, Stop&Shop has a few different price tiers that they operate different stores at. When the Market Basket in Maynard opened a few years ago, suddenly the Stop&Shop in South Acton couldn’t keep the same higher priced tier that Acton and neighboring Concord could “afford”, and they had to drop it to a lower priced tier.

Early morning was great. Tons of parking, easy access, not super busy. The people there said it would be very busy in the afternoon though.

It's mediocre stuff for cheap. So if you mostly care about the price it is good.

>but I'm still surprised by the hype. It's just a grocery store.

You must be new here. Just chalk it up to one of our parochial quirks.

Here's a documentary film that should help explain things.

I’ll probably keep going to Hudson bc it’s not usually crowded weekend mornings.

But, as a transplant from the Lowell area, I’m glad to see MB slowly moving out here more and more! There were none when I first moved here and now there are a handful. Love to see it!

All I know is Shrewsbury has enough grocery stores and no where to see a movie 🍿:(

Dude, it's like right next to Lake Quinsigamond...as in it's just over the town line between Worcester and Shrewsbury. It might as well be in Worcester for how incredibly close it is to Worcester. Just Google map it instead of freaking out.

Thanks but that is still a solid 20 minutes from where I live unless it’s 5am traffic levels. I love Trader Joe’s too but no way am I driving that far for groceries.

Bahahaha! "It's just a grocery store."

Sounds like you live in holden or paxton.

I wish they would open an H Mart near or in Worcester 😭😭