We also stopped in to Zoo Creatures, at just about closing, and were really impressed. We move from Lowell to Exeter about a year ago and stopped in there a few times while we were going back and forth, but we were rather unimpressed. I think they may have been having system issues at the time (and the guy I talked with said the same), but the store on Saturday was like a whole other place. The coral was plentiful, looked healthy, was reasonably labeled, and the staff was friendly. They were friendly even though we were just browsing at 10 minutes before closing on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. I will stop in again and plan to make the shop one of our regular places. I only glanced at the fish and I didn't poke around the dry goods at all, but in the past I've picked up a very nice and well-priced automatic feeder (Aqua chef? couldn't find the model anywhere else) for our discus, and a very cool piece of cork bark that I worked into a background "stump" for the same tank.
In general I get the heebie jeebies from "pet" shops, as I am throughly a "fish" person, but I thought their other livestock looked healthy and well-maintained as well.
Abby