Market Basket — Local services in Hudson

I planning a surprise birthday party for my neighbor as we were celebrating him coming home from work for the evening (He comes home around 7 PM). I needed some fruits and veggies for the 8 layer cake I was baking and guess what? The produce section PRODUCED some of the finest looking fruits and veggies I've ever seen. Haha just a joke to ease the tension! I came into some trouble when I needed one single russet potato, but for the life of me just could not find one. Thankfully, a young man named Jake who worked in produce really helped me out. He told me he knew just the right place to look, said "FOLLOW ME PAL" and I followed him. I followed him to the right spot and found my single russet potato. The incredible knowledge Jake had about the russet potato was extraordinary. He went into the history of the use of russet potatoes. Including how McDonald's uses them for their French fries. He then told me the great history of Luther Burbank, a legendary botanist who developed the Burbank Russet potato. Born in Lancaster, Massachusetts on March 7th, 1849. Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developed (but did not create) a spineless cactus (useful for cattle-feed) and the plumcot. Burbank's most successful strains and varieties include the Shasta daisy, the fire poppy (note possible confusion with the California wildflower, Papaver californicum, which is also called a fire poppy), the "July Elberta" peach, the "Santa Rosa" plum, the "Flaming Gold" nectarine, the "Wickson" plum (named after the agronomist Edward J. Wickson), the freestone peach, and the white blackberry. A natural genetic variant of the Burbank potato with russet-colored skin later became known as the russet Burbank potato. This large, brown-skinned, white-fleshed potato has become the world's predominant potato in food processing. The Russet Burbank potato was in fact invented to help with the devastating situation in Ireland during the Irish Potato famine. This particular potato variety was created by Burbank to help "revive the country's leading crop" as it is slightly late blight-resistant. Late blight (Phytophthora infestans) is a disease that spread and destroyed potatoes all across Europe but caused extreme chaos in Ireland due to the high dependency on potatoes as a crop by the Irish. Can you believe all of this information Jake shared with me? Absolutely incredible service at Market Basket in Hudson, NH. I WILL be going BACK and I WILL be asking for JAKE next time I need produce!! The party was a smash hit too, we really surprised my neighbor! He...

I went to the market kitchen today with my sister. I have lost my voice so she was ordering for the both of us. Corey - 5 year worker was the guy we had to deal with. He was so short with us when trying to order our subs. All we wanted was a steak bomb sub and a turkey sandwich toasted. He asked my sister if anything needed to be made on the grill and she slipped up and said the turkey, but she meant she wanted it toasted. He laughed and said “you want turkey on the grill” which she didn’t mean, but he was being so short with us that she got anxious. He starts making our subs and all of a sudden I hear him telling his coworker the whole conversation we had and mocking her. At this point we felt so uncomfortable and she just wanted to cry after hearing him make fun of her. After reading some other reviews about the workers in the kitchen, it seems like they don’t hire proper workers for customer service. If you are going to make fun of the customers, maybe wait until they are not...

Generally I have pretty good visits to Market Baskets, at least the new ones are usually pretty great, and their produce had gotten much better over the years.. the prices have definitely climbed over the last 5 years or so, but what are you gonna do? Anyway I have had a few experiences at this location, and I gotta say, the Deli counters performance was severely under par.. there were only 2 people ahead of us, and it took us almost 20 minutes to get our lunch meat.. the employees seemed to be more interested in talking about their weekends and was mostly younger kids in their 20's. Now we have all seen a long deli line, and it can take forever, but it shouldn't with only a few people around.. bad form guys, where is the work ethic? Then they treat you like you are the one who is rude.. I am referring to multiple experiences at this point, in fact I have gone to other stores just for the deli to avoid it.. love the free coffee though guys, so that brought my...