The excited grocery shopper approaches the store with some fear and trepidation. While the bright lights draw her in, she can not help but notice the buzz of excitment that surrounds her fellow shoppers. Slowly pushing her cart she heads to the right in her familliar route towards the Dairy section. Amid the throng of Friday night shoppers she quickly notices that the ‘egg and cheese’ section is twice the size as she remembers it. The dairy case is to be a harbinger of things to come. The shopper continues on and finds the aisles comfortably wider and the floors noticibly cleaner.

What had started as a cautious visit to a brand new store was becoming quite enjoyable. For once our shopper was not run down by elderly fellow shoppers and their wayward carts. She could turn around in the produce department without knocking over the green pepper display. In addition to the surprise of extra checkout lanes with cute, polite bagger boys she was glad to see an aquaintence. Her college roomate, Kendra Nicholas, shopping for sushi.

Leaving the shop with a couple weeks worth of groceries she vows to return in the future. Next time she will study her new map of the aisles and will have a perfectly ordered list, corresponding with those aisles. Though she will miss the cozy, cluttered, chaos of the original Danvers Market Basket, the shopper decides that change is good and she just may take advantage of the wide variety of Asian and South American goodies.