About Lowell Provision Co. & Alpine Butcher Shop

"We have a unique combination of service, quality, commitment, experience, and caring."

We can provide you with the edge necessary in today's competitive environment. Our commitment to bring you quality, freshness and value is the same today as it was three generations ago in 1913 when we started our family business.

Lowell Provision has continued to grow with each generation due to our attentive service, choice meats and finest provisions. We firmly believe, and have proven, the way to continued growth is through hard work and a constant effort to supply and produce top quality products, products that customers will talk about and return for.

At Lowell Provision every individual account is give personal attention as our many satisfied customers will attest. We provide you with what you want, when you want it. So, many items can be and are customized to save you time and money. Accordingly, we get to know and serve you better. Your success is very important to us.

Our Proud History

"Meat business since the early 1900's ..."

Over ninety years we have provided the best quality meats to the Greater Lowell area!!! Lowell Provision Company legacy began with the first generation of Doyle's in 1913. Morrill Doyle, an immigrant from CANADA opened up the meat market in 1913 on Moody Street, Lowell, Massachusetts. At that time there was no such thing as refrigeration. Meat was kept cool with blocks of ice cut from the Merrimack River and insulated with straw and sawdust lasting a whole year. Each winter new ice was cut from the river and the iceboxes were repacked and reinsulated.

World War II was a difficult time for Lowell area businesses. Morrill's son Robert is drafted, meat is rationed and food is allotted by ration stamps. However, Morrill kept Lowell Provision going by supplying to institutions and paying attention to Greater Lowell's buying habits. WWII ended and it was back to business as usual.

Robert Doyle took over the family business in 1946 with focus on high quality product and service. In the 1960's with urban renewal changes in the Moody Street area, Lowell Provision Company moves to 23 Aiken Avenue, Lowell Massachusetts. The new Lowell Provision Company is larger and is able to offer the retail store that we know and love today.

Nine children later, Robert begins to utilize the older children at the store. Most of the children started sweeping floors but worked themselves up to full time butcher and eventual owners. Lowell Provision Company expanded in 1989 and opened Alpine Butcher Shop in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Today, three of Roberts's children own and operate Lowell Provision Company. Both meat markets offer individualized customer care; specialty cuts of meat and in-house prepared gourmet food.

Dennis, Peter, and Philip Doyle invite you to stop by and enjoy our family owned meat business. We are federally inspected daily by the USDA insuring that you, the customer are receiving of the best quality meats processed under wholesome conditions.

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