Market Basket

Me and my wife used to go to the Ashland market basket and it was brutal in terms of being a little cramped, but fuck it, more for your dollar right? hell yeah!
So we bought a house in Bolton and we were happy a new market basket was within 10mins of it, perhaps was even on our Pros list, who am I do divulge that info?
Either way this Basket is new, clean, well-​stocked, and the market kitchen is off the chain. If my wife didn’t have food-​sensitivities I assume we would buy a pizza from here every night for dinner, as it is I try to buy a slice when I can, which is really 2-​slices for under 3 bucks. The food from the kitchen is always good for the price.
There is an increasingly large selection of organic vegetables and fruits, although this can be hit or miss, and great grass fed beef options.
Shout out to George in the fish department who remembered my daughters name after 1 meeting, but always gives the best service with the friendliest smile.
Artie for Life!!!
How can you not love a business that literally always has the bets prices around and takes care of their employees and customers?!

I have shopped at Market Basket a few times now and I am torn. The employees are amazing. Very polite, extremely helpful and seem happy to be working there. It’s nice to see that and some other local stores could learn from that. After the employees though, I start to struggle. First of all, the layout. I just don’t get it. Ice cream in the produce dept, milk all the way across the store from there and meat kind of all over the place. I never know where to start when I am there and, there have been times that, due to the crowds, I have actually just walked out of the store, midway through my shopping attempts. It feels very overwhelming in there at times. Right before they close on a Friday night or as soon as they open on a Saturday are the best times to go, otherwise it’s just not worth it.
Finally, I have a question about the dates on their products. For example, I buy Garelick Farms Over the Moon fat free milk. If I buy it at Stop and Shop, it has a date of 4 – 5 WEEKS before the sell by. This morning at Market Basket, all of their Over the Moon had dates of ¹⁄₈ and ¹⁄₉. That’s today and tomorrow! How?!? And this is a regular occurrence there. I often find it has less than a week and usually just a day or 2. I bought yogurt today that I have to return because (and shame on me for not looking) but it expires tomorrow. I bought the same yogurt (Activia vanilla) at Stop and Shop almost 2 weeks ago and that expires on January 30^th. Same with eggs. Market Basket has great prices but I think it’s a classic case of you get what you pay for. Over the Moon milk is $.30 cheaper than at Stop and Shop and $ 1 cheaper than at Price Chopper but it’s not worth the savings or the crowd dodging and long lines if it’s not going to be any good a day after its purchased. I am all about value and saving money on my weekly grocery bill but I now have to go to another grocery store anyway to get milk and some other perishables so it may just not be worth it to go back.

I grew up shopping at Market Basket (30+) years and hate shopping anywhere else. When we moved to Marlborough I was disappointed that there wasn’t a Market Basket near by and then this location opened! Love shopping here, the staff are always really nice. And the bakery makes some really good items. BEST DONUTS around!

Just an update on the free gas program at Price Chopper:
I was wrong… I actually got my free gas earnings up to over $ 2.00 per gallon, and put 14 gallons of gas in my car for $ 2.50 total! Thanks Price Chopper!!! Chopper shopper for life!

This is a great, great store. The selection of food is amazing. Lots of options and variety. I don’t think I have ever gone there and not found what I needed. It is exceptionally clean, neat, and well stocked. The prices are fabulous — especially considering the quality of things like meat, vegetables, and fruit.
I also think the employees are terrific. They are very polite and cheerful. Whether they are working in the aisles, ringing at the cash register, bagging groceries, or in the parking lot gathering carts they always greet you and tell you to have a nice day. I think a lot of with as to do with the store running fully staffed; employees aren’t stressed and rushed and can actually spend quality time with the customers.
They also print on both sides of the grocery receipt. A little thing, but it is greatly appreciated. I enjoy going to this store and leave feeling like I had a nice shopping experience. I plan my shopping around the busier times, which helps.

This weekend we stopped at this Market Basket location both on the way to the Cape as well as on the way back. This was the first time stopping at this location and it actually is now one of our favorites.
The store itself is smaller than others we have been to, but they had a huge selection of items and overall the store was well stocked. The store was very clean and the staff here was incredible.
Our favorite part of this store had to be the fact that it had a huge selection of Portuguese merchandise including a few different types of cheese. This was great because we hadn’t seen these products in a long time and we were happy to buy them.
In the end, the store was great, but the staff is what sold us on this location. The staff stocking the shelves were knowledgeable and our cashier was polite and quick.

Great prices, big clean organized store. They have free wifi in the café which helps if you need to find an ingredient or on line sale item.
It’s in the shopping complex where construction is still taking place.
It’s farther for me to drive but may be worth it if I have other shopping to do.

The prices, hospitality, and service are great. The store manager gave us free coffees when he saw us walking around with Starbucks, telling us that he thinks we will enjoy it. This is not out of the fact that we enjoy Starbucks, as I enjoy a lot of different coffee places. The coffee here tastes watered down and burnt. Needless to say, I drank enough to give it a review and dumped the rest. Other than that, I have no complaints.

Great store. Bigger than Stop and Shop in Marlborough where I used to go and much cheaper than Wegmans. Great produce and meat and fish. Good prices. Friendly staff. Never seen it crowded and lines are short. Only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars was because they don’t sell beer and there is no liquor store in the same mall so that requires a separate stop.

Prices are fair but have now on several occasions purchased meat from here, got it home, and turned out it was rancid even though sell by date hadn’t passed yet… not sure what is going on with their handling of meats but today was the third time this has happened in the past months. Twice with chicken, and today with a pork tenderloin…
Too bad because it is right next to my house and convenient but cant keep wasting $$ and throwing out the rotten meat they sell.

This is really a great store. The prices are incredibly low compared to S&S. The place is always busy, and they need to open more checkout lines. This is really bothering me; all retailers do this these days to cut costs. In high school I worked at S&S and we had almost all lines open all the time. Be prepared to wait.
Otherwise, great!

grocery shopping is my LEAST favorite thing to do, honestly. This market basket actually makes me enjoy it. Everyone that works here is so nice and beyond helpful! The produce section is fantastic, and the guy who operates the intercom is awesome.

Near perfect. I was so happy with this place when it first opened. It’s unfortunate that the narrower aisles from other stores were replaced with widened aisles and filled with newcomers but that’s a sign of success, well deserved. The parking lot is fantastic, the customer service is so helpful and accommodating and the selection is infinitely better than Whole Foods. I love the samples station near the dairy aisle. The seafood counter and service is extraordinary. You guys have really raised the bar for grocery stores.

So pumped this place opened. I am a loyal MB customer. I was driving 25 mins to Ashland to go to that location for the past 3 years. Now this one is right down the street!
This store is way nicer than the other MBs I’ve been to. Their selections are awesome and you can’t beat the prices. I live that this location isn’t busy on Saturday mornings… yet.

This is a great store. It isn’t a newer shopping plaza next to Lowes and across from BJ’s. Because it is a new store it is still gaining popularity not as crowded as most Market Baskets. The associates here are very friendly and enthusiastic.
Also, their prepared foods section is phenomenal. Hamburger patties are fresh and made to order… Steak and cheese sub melts in your mouth. And is huge

This is hands down one of the greatest grocery stores I’ve ever been to, the only downfall about this place is it’s always packed, but I don’t blame them. The store has cafes and other places where you can get food, sit down and enjoy yourself. Not just that but they have some of the lowest prices, and greatest deals I’ve seen as opposed to other competing grocery stores. The staff is all young, but they’re very educated in their craft, and are very appreciative and friendly. If only the store was closer then I would shop and visit there every single day. The only other store I could compare this to is BJ’s, which as a matter of fact is in the same vicinity as the Market Basket.
I say this because they have the cafes, free samples, low prices, it has everything a BJ’s does, minus the fact BJ’s a retail warehouse store with more than groceries.
Hands down the greatest grocery store in my opinion.

I have been a Market Basket fan for decades — first in Somerville, then in Leominster and Fitchburg, so I was excited that Market Basket opened a store close to where I live now.
The store has many good points — it’s clean, with a good selection, excellent pricing and offers addictively tasty fresh squeezed OJ and really good pizza cheap.
But today I had an experience that makes me doubt I’ll ever go back, at least to this location. They have creepy over zealous loss prevention goons, just waiting for a chance to strut their stuff.
I shop several times weekly, and generally pay by check. Apparently a couple of weeks ago, when I paid by check, the cashier handed the check back to me with the receipt. I did not notice and likely threw it away with the receipt. Through their system they identified me, and attempted to call me, but it was an old number. The address on file was current, but no attempt was made to contact me by mail or contact my bank.
Instead, their gung-​ho fresh out of high school loss prevention/​security guard waited for my return to the store. As I learned later, he had studied the surveillance footage of the transaction, so he knew exactly what I looked like. He said he saw me as soon as I entered the store, and watched me as I shopped. I didn’t have a clue that anything was up, I just pushed my cart around, completely unaware I was under surveillance.
When I got to the register, my payment couldn’t be processed and I was directed to the service desk. After a minute or two, the security dude came over, all smiley and how are you doing, calling me by name and asked if I had their check for them. I told him I didn’t know what he was talking about. He said, «Come on, you don’t have it? The cashier gave you back the check and you walked out with it. You owe us $ 55, you know that.».
At this point I did not doubt that they had lost the check, and indeed probably given it back to me, but I was pissed off by his attitude that I was a scammer. That’s a disrespectful and unprofessional way to deal with a situation resulting from store error. How did I know the check hadn’t been processed and exactly how much it was for? He showed me no documentation and didn’t even give me a date! I asked for a copy of the transaction and had to wait more than 10 minutes before he produced it.
In the meantime I asked to speak with the manager. The manager apologized and admitted they could have sent me a letter, instead of wasting my time with in store dramatics. But he seemed more concerned about the feelings of the cashier, who he said was now ineligible for a raise this quarter. Damn straight!
Anyway, I wrote the replacement check — there is no problem with that, if money is owed. But I resent being profiled as a dead beat, put under surveillance while I shop and my time being wasted in a cat and mouse game.
The problem should have been handled by the store manager, properly documented and it should have been presented as the store’s mistake, not my fault.
It’s bad business to blame employee error on the customer.

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Went here again recently and the prices were great. Much improved.

For the store itself I would give four stars, it is nice, clean and well stocked.
Avoid the prepared foods takeout though — thats what I am giving the one star to — it is staffed by people who are not only untrained and totally incompetent, but they act annoyed that that have to go to the trouble of serving you.
They have a menu posted up on the wall but don’t bother trying to order any of the entrees or sandwiches — they never actually have any of the items. Why they have the menu up I have no idea.
If you do manage to actually order something they take forever and screw up the order since they have no idea where anything is or how to put an order together.
And do not order any of the «by the pound» items unless you want a full pound. The employees have no math skills and they have no idea that half a pound is 0.5 pounds so if you order half a pound you might get .7, .8 or .9 pounds.
Very disappointing overall.

This store just opened last weekend. Market Basket is a really great option for shopping in this area! This is not a fancy store but if you are looking for everyday value on great food than this is your place to go. No need to stop for a coffee on the way — they have a place right up front with lots of different beverage choices including fresh squeezed OJ.
The newer MBs like this one offer a great selection of groceries and also a good selection of prepared foods. They have a section to get fresh cooked foods like chicken wings and sides for dinner. Also in this section you can get fresh made salads, subs and pizza. Their pizza and wing deals are unbeatable. The buffalo chicken wings are large, meaty and flavorful. They also have a cased meat section where you can get higher grade meats and cut how you want them.
The staff here were beyond helpful and friendly. Unlike other market baskets the staff here wanted to help you find things and made a point to have conversations with customers! The carriage boy even came to my car to ask if he could help load my groceries and then took my cart — wow you usually only see that at a more upscale store.
Let me say it again — this is not a fancy place — don’t come here thinking it is Whole Foods or any of those others — this store works because you can get great everyday prices and good deals.