8 Hannaford Finds Mainers Secretly Hoard

About 8,000 Hannaford products come from local producers across the five states it operates in, the Portland Press Herald reported in August.

A few Maine-based items may already be in your cart.

These are the Hannaford finds many Mainers secretly hoard.

1. Wyman’s Wild Blueberries

Jasper Wyman founded the company in 1874, according to Down East magazine.

The business remains in the Wyman family four generations later.

Hannaford’s frozen-fruit page lists Wyman’s Wild Blueberries in 3 lb and 15 oz bags.

The 3 lb bag is more than three times the size of the 15 oz bag.

You can pour a cup straight from the freezer into a bowl of oatmeal.

Many shoppers reach for the bigger bag.

Maine growers harvested 90.8 million pounds of wild blueberries from 19,100 acres in 2024.

2. Raye’s Mustard

Hannaford’s mustard aisle lists three Raye’s jars, in classic yellow, European-style dijon and sweet and spicy.

Raye’s began grinding mustard seeds in 1900, in a family smokehouse, and the state atlas calls its Eastport mill the last traditional stone-ground mustard mill in North America.

The Raye family still owns and runs it, now in its fourth generation.

A spoonful of the sweet and spicy goes well in a vinaigrette, or you can brush some on a ham.

3. Gifford’s HomeMaine Ice Cream

Gifford’s is based in Skowhegan, where Down East reported in 2016 that a fifth generation of the family was at the helm.

That year, a $1.6 million plant expansion was set to double the company’s quart-filling capacity, from 1 million to 2 million quarts a year.

Gifford’s already sold 100 flavors from Maine to South Carolina and as far west as Nevada.

Many people keep a quart on hand for company.

Hannaford’s ice cream aisle lists Gifford’s in 1 quart cartons, including Moose Tracks, Peanut Butter Pie and Camp Coffee.

A few flavors, such as Banana Caramel Coconut, come in pints.

4. Humpty Dumpty Chips

Outside New England and parts of Canada, Humpty Dumpty chips are difficult to find, The Takeout says.

Many people keep a bag in the cupboard.

At Hannaford, the lineup includes barbecue, salt and vinegar and Ripples All Dressed in 8 oz bags, with barbecue and Ripples All Dressed also in 12.5 oz.

If you’re feeding a crowd, the party size bag is the one to grab.

Yankee magazine traces the brand to a company founded in 1947.

Old Dutch Foods took over in 2006.

5. Moxie Soda

In 1884, Dr. Augustin Thompson of Union created “Moxie Nerve Food.”

The Maine Legislature named Moxie the official state soft drink in 2005, calling it a drink that “symbolizes spirit and courage.”

Hannaford’s cola page lists Moxie in regular and diet 12 packs of 12 oz cans.

Lisbon marked 40 years of its annual Moxie Festival in 2024, and the events included a chicken chucking contest and a Moxie whoopie pie eating contest.

You can buy one of each and compare.

6. Smiling Hill Farm Milk

The Westbrook farm traces its roots to 1720, when the Knight family established a homestead, according to Maine’s state atlas.

Hannaford’s milk aisle carries Smiling Hill Farm milk in whole, 2% reduced fat, chocolate, strawberry and banana.

Banana comes in a pint, and strawberry comes in a pint or a quart.

Whole milk comes in half gallons and quarts, so you can pick the size that fits your fridge.

The 2% reduced fat comes in half gallons and quarts, too.

7. Ducktrap Smoked Salmon

Mainebiz traces Ducktrap River of Maine to 1978, when its founder began raising trout in Kendall Brook in Lincolnville and selling them to local restaurants and markets.

Hannaford’s smoked-fish page lists nine Ducktrap products, in packs from 4 oz to 16 oz.

One of them, Signature Style Kendall Brook, shares its name with that brook.

At the time of that profile, the company had 130 employees.

Two of the nine are hot honey Atlantic salmon, in 4 oz and 6 oz packs.

The Spruce Point listing says the salmon is naturally smoked in Maine, over fruitwoods and hardwoods.

8. Wicked Whoopie Snack Cakes

Maine’s official state treat is the whoopie pie.

Hannaford’s bakery cookie page lists Wicked Whoopie Classic and Peanut Butter cakes in 5 oz packs.

Separately, Mainebiz profiled Wicked Whoopies of Gardiner, whose sales grew from $1,900 in its founder’s first year to $3 million in 2015.

The company was making 10,000 whoopie pies a day.

The company offered 50 flavors in all.

Through a distributor, its pies reached 500 convenience stores in Maine.

Local Sourcing

The 8,000 figure covers all five states, and Maine has about a third of Hannaford’s stores.

As of August, the Portland Press Herald counted 68 Hannaford stores in Maine, making it the state’s largest grocer.

In 2025, Hannaford sourced $40 million worth of produce from more than 70 Maine farms and suppliers.

Green Thumb Farms in Fryeburg supplies most of Hannaford’s yellow potatoes.

Norm Daigle, Hannaford’s vice president of category management, said individual stores don’t keep track of how much produce is local.

The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) started a petition in March 2026 asking Hannaford to adopt a Maine-first produce sourcing policy.

The petition also asks for local contracts, open talks with farmers on logistics and payment that covers the cost of producing local food.

More than 6,000 people had signed it as of early August.