Stop & Shop

Oh, I want to see an Oscar Mayer wiener, that is what I truly want to see-e-e ...

adamg — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:43:45 +0000

No baloney!

For some reason, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile has been flitting about the Boston area the past couple of days. Today, as Sheeps Eating Me shows, it appeared in Hyde Park. Truman Parkway, to be exact.

Why there? No doubt to help open the newly rebuilt Stop & Shop there.

We took a spin around the place (after the wienermobile had left, though). It's a vast improvement over the old store there, but then, almost anything would be, given that that store was the Stop & Shop that time forgot, forever stuck in the 1970s, right down to the old Stop & Shop sign out front.

Passover where you least expect it

adamg — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:39:05 +0000

The matzah was just out of camera range.

Dana Reichman reports she was surprised to turn an aisle at the Stop & Shop on American Legion Highway in Roslindale this morning to see a decent supply of Passover goods. She reports the stuff wasn't flying off the shelves, but it was only 7 a.m.

Spotted dick, no balls at Stop & Shop

adamg — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:57:44 +0000

The Christian Science Monitor reports Stop & Shop has decided not to carry Ben & Jerry's new Schweddy Balls ice cream. However, the Dedham store does stock tins of spotted dick, which is some kind of English pudding-like thing consisting of dried fruit in steamed suet. Stop & Shop declined to say why they refused to carry the fudge-covered rum-ball ice cream.

Stop & Gone

massmarrier — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:15:46 +0000

An ex-Stop & Shop barely remains on Truman Parkway. Last week, it looked like they'd fill the lot behind the Jersey barriers with construction equipment and never get to tearing down the not-so-supermarket, liquor store, bank and pharmacy.

Two workdays later, there's not much left. An empty brick shell may be gone this week. We're figuring to see the big-assed version of grocery and drugstore within six months. Walgreen's is now a trailer pharmacy.

When Americans get into deconstruction, they get serious.

Stop & Shop makes it hard to find calcium supplements it advertises on sale

adamg — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:47:50 +0000

Mike Ball goes in search of some calcium supplements advertised as a 2-for-1 special in a Stop & Shop circular. He winds up on a tour of the Stop & Shops of Boston before finally finding a store that actually has the things.

Boston has a supermarket strike after all

adamg — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:07:49 +0000

While Stop & Shop workers were busy ratifying a new contract this weekend, workers at Shaw's produce warehouse in Methuen were going out on strike, Channel 4 reports. That could mean you'll see only wilted lettuce at your local Shaw's and Star Market - assuming you cross the picket lines the workers could be putting up.

So many Peeps, so little time

adamg — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:29:14 +0000

It's the day before Valentine's Day, so of course Stop & Shop in Dedham already has all its Easter and Passover stuff out.

It's time to Stop & Panic

adamg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:09:23 +0000

Like, Oh. My. God! It's been a month since our last snow storm! Howsoever shall we get ready? Have no fear, consumers, Stop & Shop is here to help, with a handy checklist it just blasted out to its scan-card customers, which urges you to stock up NOW on essentials such as hard candy, lollipops and at least seven gallons of bottled water PER PERSON. Oh, and pepper, because remember all those poor people in Baltimore bereft of pepper last week?

Wait, something's missing from their list. Where's the bread, eggs and milk? How can you have a storm without them? Also missing: Toilet paper. Who wrote this thing?

New Roslindale Stop & Shop not 'super,' but it has wider aisles than the new Star in Chestnut Hill, so there

adamg — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:51:20 +0000

Armed with coupons for 5% off our order and a free jar of Hellman's mayo, we decamped today for the rebuilt Stop & Shop at American Legion and Cummins highways (where the Bradlees used to be).

Thanksgiving must come early this year

adamg — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:51:52 +0000

We took a break from our usual Shaw's/Roche Bros. shopping routine today and went down to the Super-Mega-Humongo Stop & Shop in Dedham to take advantage of the 5% one-time discount you get when you sign your life away to Stop & Shop so they can data-mine your purchases to hell and back and bombard you with endless promotions (i.e., you register your new 'n' improved see-through Stop & Shop card).

They have so much room at this Colossus of a store that the deli department was able to devote an entire display case to a Thanksgiving diorama featuring two Pilgrim dolls giving thanks for nature's bounty, in the form of cold cuts, cheeses, olives and pumpkins. Don't worry, a few aisles away, they had a complete selection of Halloween candy.

Not the best cell-phone photo I've ever taken, but you get the idea:

Seltzer boy

adamg — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:39:33 +0000

Whalehead King compares Polar Black Cherry Seltzer with the equivalent version of Stop & Shop's store brand, Zazz. Why, you ask?

The Stop & Shop on Morrissey is running one of its periodic specials on seltzer: two, one-liter bottles for a dollar of the house brand "Zazz." You have to use your card to take advantage of the savings, which is the subject for another disgruntled, curmudgeonly rant. Stop & Shop usually charges 65 cents a bottle, so this savings of 15 cents, not counting the deposit, is nothing to sneeze at if you plan on consuming 14 liters a week. ...

Dedham style Muzak

massmarrier — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:50:49 +0000

My wife returned from the Dedham Stop & Shop today with the giggles. Some worker there commandeered the speaker system to go all Irish on the customers. There were a couple of halting, then sincere, verses of Galway Bay. Then dead air was followed by the rest of the parody. Shoppers picked up their strawberries serenaded by:

On her back she has tattooed a map of Ireland
And when she takes her bath on Saturday,
She rubs the Sunlight Soap around by Claddagh
Just to watch the suds go down by Galway Bay.

Afternoon of the long nails at Brookline supermarket

adamg — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:07:56 +0000

Brookline Police report on an incident at the Harvard Street Stop & Shop yesterday afternoon:

Victim reports that when the two suspects called the cashier a derogatory name, the victim then spoke up and said, "you shouldn't call her a ...". One of the suspect replied "you should mind your own business", while the other suspect reached over and scratched the victim's chest. The two suspects fled the store without their items.

Free drugs at Stop & Shop

adamg — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:49:23 +0000

The Boston Business Journal reports the chain will be giving away 36 different types of generic prescription drugs (so, yeah, you'll need a valid prescription) between Jan. 2 and March 21 ~~as a publicity stunt~~ to help financially beleaguered customers.

Clash of the Holidays

adamg — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:41:49 +0000

AppleFoot reports the Halloween and Christmas decorations are facing off in the center aisle of the Malden Stop & Shop.