New BrunswickSalisbury’s only grocery store has been destroyed by fire. The business on Main Street employed more than 40 people.Town looking to help residents reach other stores, says mayorRhythm Rathi · CBC News · Posted: Sep 28, 2025 11:56 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours agoSalisbury’s only grocery store has been destroyed by fire. (Victoria Walton/CBC)The only grocery store in Salisbury, N.B., has been destroyed by fire.Mayor Robert Campbell said he began receiving phone calls around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday about a fire at Walker’s Your Independent Grocer. He said the Main Street business employed more than 40 people.”Pretty devastating right now for our community,” he said.Mayor Robert Campbell said he began receiving phone calls around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday about a fire at Walker’s Your Independent Grocer. (Lisa D Fagan/Facebook)Campbell said the store has been in town since the early 80s and was handy for many who had to walk there.”It’s basically a lifeline for our community, for all residents in their day-to-day shopping,” he said. “It’s part of the social fabric,” he said. “Anything you need in our community is there, so this is … pretty hard to fathom right now.”The grocery business employed 40 people. (Victoria Walton/CBC)Fire departments from Salisbury, Petitcodiac, Moncton, Dieppe, Riverview, Havelock and Elgin responded to the fire, said town CAO Austin Henderson.He said the building contains the grocery store, an insurance building and a dollar store. Henderson could not confirm if the fire extended to the other businesses.Pictures taken by CBC News show the part of the building housing the grocery store is destroyed.Campbell said he is confident the town will be able to rebound from this loss. He said Salisbury is already looking into different means to help residents meet their grocery needs.Residents will have to travel to nearby towns for their grocery shopping. The town is already looking into ways to help. (Lisa D Fagan/Facebook)”We were on the call this morning and started chatting about ways that we can try to help them, whether it be … bus service or something that we can put into place.”Campbell said the nearest grocery store is Foodland in Petitcodiac.ABOUT THE AUTHORRhythm Rathi is a reporter with CBC New Brunswick in Moncton. He was born and raised in India, and attended journalism school in Ontario. Send your story tips to rhythm.rathi@cbc.ca
Fire destroys Salisbury’s lone grocery store
