CAMDEN — The steady bang, bang, bang you hear as you walk around Hannaford Supermarket, just off of Route 1 at the Camden-Rockport town line, is not recorded music; rather, it is the sound of progress.
The Scarborough-based company is expanding its Camden store into the plaza’s former Movie Gallery space, increasing square footage from 28,000 square feet to 32.500 square feet. The additional space will house the Hannaford’s produce section and a new entrance to the store. Additional construction will provide a new pharmacy and changes to the front section of the store currently used for checkouts.
With the addition of a pharmacy to its Camden store, Hannaford will put itself in direct competition with the Rite Aid pharmacy at 35 Elm St. in Camden. The nearest pharmacy north is in Belfast. To the south is Kennebec Pharmacy, across from Pen Bay Medical Center, in Rockport. Hannaford has been expanding into the pharmacy business since 1992, adding units to stores without pharmacies, most dramatically in 2006 when it added 120 pharmacies to its stores.
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