MARKET BASKET opened a new store at 1300 Hartford Ave. in Johnston, Rhode Island, on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. It's the company's second store in Rhode Island, after the first it opened in Warwick in May 2021. The Johnston Market Basket will be the 86th store operating between Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. / COURTESY MARKET BASKET
JOHNSTON – As a line of eager shoppers waited outside to get a first look, doors opened at a new Market Basket in Johnston on Friday morning, making it the second store that the New England supermarket chain has opened in Rhode Island, bringing more than 400 jobs to the Ocean State. Market Basket initially…