Future Foods

The downtown area of Mechanic Falls, centered at Depot Square, has for many years been the location of a grocery store. For almost a generation, the Depot Square plaza anchor store was owned and operated by Warren Sawyer and John Wood. Their fathers had run the Sampson's Supermarket chain and had formed Future Foods as a corporate entity for their sons to control. The initial two stores were located in Mechanic Falls and in Gray, ME. Warren and John were able to expand the business and eventually had six stores. In July of 1995, they began their retirement process of selling or leasing their stores to their store managers. Steve Berry was the beneficiary of the Mechanic Falls store.