Brothers Telemachus and George Demoilas relocated their original store in 1950. It remains in “The Acre” section of Lowell, Mass., but is now at 80 Dummer St. (COURTESY PHOTO)
DeMoulas Super Markets opened its sixth location and first in New Hampshire in 1964. Located on Route 28 in Salem, it served customers in the Merrimack Valley. (COURTESY PHOTO).
Brothers Telemachus and George Demoilas relocated their original store in 1950. It remains in “The Acre” section of Lowell, Mass., but is now at 80 Dummer St. (COURTESY PHOTO)
George Demoulas passed away while vacationing with his family in Greece shortly after opening Store No. 14 in Fitchburg. (COURTESY PHOTO)
DeMoulas Super Markets opened its sixth location and first in New Hampshire in 1964. Located on Route 28 in Salem, it served customers in the Merrimack Valley. (COURTESY PHOTO).
LOWELL, Mass. — DeMoulas Super Markets, Inc., under the trade name Market Basket, is a chain of 88 supermarkets in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island in the United States, with headquarters in Tewsbury, Mass.
According to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the company traces its beginnings to 1917, when Greek immigrants Athanasios (“Arthur”) and Efrosini Demoulas opened DeMoulas Market, a grocery store in the Acre neighborhood of Lowell, Mass., that specialized in fresh lamb.
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