Market Basket’s First Maine Supermarket Will Create Up To 600 Jobs In Biddeford

BIDDEFORD, Maine — Market Basket supermarkets, with stores in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, is popular among many Mainers in the southern part of the state, who travel regularly across the border in search of lower grocery prices.

Soon, traveling out of state will no longer be necessary.

According to a city official, Market Basket will open its first Maine store next year in Biddeford.

Economic Development Director Daniel Stevenson said a store representative, who didn’t wish to be named, told him the store will open in the summer or early fall of 2013.

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