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Is Market Basket Moving Out of Reading?

Reading residents want to know if the grocery store plans to move to another town.

Welcome to You Ask...Patch Answers where we answer readers questions. We recently received questions about the Market Basket in Reading. Patch readers want to know if the grocery store is moving. Here's your answer. Rumors about the Market Basket in Reading have been circulating around town. Residents heard that the grocery store is moving to Wakefield. However, Assistant Manager Mark Lambert said that they are not moving, and do not have any plans to move in the future. ”We're doing business as usual,” Lambert said. Operations Manager David McLean confirmed Lambert's answer and said that the store is staying put in Reading. "It's a rumor that has no basis," McLean said. McLean was not able to comment on the duration of the store's current…

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Reading Patch Readers Prefer Market Basket

In last week's POLL: Which Local Grocery Store Do You Prefer, Reading Patch Readers choose Market Basket two to one.

Last week, Patch asked our readers: which grocery store do you prefer, Stop and Shop or Market Basket? The results are in. By a two to one victory, readers picked Market Basket over Stop and Shop. With a total of 221 votes, Market Basket took 67 percent of the vote (149) and Stop and Shop had 33 percent (72). Here are some of the comments people shared on why they voted the way they did. M wrote: "If I go to a Market Basket, it's worth the trip to me to go to the one on rt 38 in Wilmington - feels like the aisles are a foot wider & entire store much larger. It feels like any time I'm in the Reading store, regardless of time of day or day of week, at all aisles except frozen goods has at least one, if not two, employees set of with a large …

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