Stop & Shop

Stop & Shop to stop selling everything but Kellogg's Corn Flakes

adamg — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:21:15 -0400

Stop & Shop today unveiled a new logo, which to my untrained, non-graphical-design eye is very similar to the stylized cornflakes logo, if squashed and re-shaped a bit to make it look more like a goose that's gotten trapped in a giant grapefruit.

Stop & Shop says the new logo is part of an effort to make shopping "easier and quicker." That would certainly lend credence to my theory - if you can only buy one thing at the store, you're not going to spend much time there. Channel 4 also reports:

These changes include scanning items as you shop, weighing and pricing produce yourself and creating kid-friendly isles that are free of candy and tabloid magazines.

Kid-friendly isles! Like Martha's Vineyard?

Wanna mako something of it?

adamg — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:37:43 -0400

Stop & Shop to stop selling shark, to try to help conserve the fish. Also gone from Stop & Shop: Orange roughy and Chilean sea bass.

Tuna salad of doom

adamg — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:46:31 -0400

Stop & Shop is recalling tuna salad that might have listeria mixed right in.

Listeria generally doesn't bother otherwise healthy, non-pregnant people, but can cause serious problems in the very young and very old, people with compromised immune systems and pregnant women.

Last week:
Roll-up listeria at Roche Bros.
E. coliburgers at Whole Foods.

Halloween season already?

adamg — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:26:40 -0400

Halloween candy now for sale at Framingham supermarket.

Now if he'd been in the tomato section, it'd be more understandable

adamg — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:11:16 -0400

Third Decade reports:

While walking through the produce area of the South Bay Stop & Shop I saw a man in his late-30s to early-40s walk up to the avocados and make the sign of the Cross before picking one.

Framingham Stop & Shop makes no cents

adamg — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:02:13 -0500

CDG suggests the Old Connecticut Path Stop & Shop test employees on simple math, so when she hands over 17 soda bottles, she gets back 85 cents and no lip from the customer-service cashier who seems unable to fathom that a cash register could be wrong.

Teen-agers charged with armed holdup at South Bay

adamg — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:38:23 -0500

Boston Police report arresting two Dorchester teens, 15 and 16, on charges they took a shopper's iPod at knifepoint outside the South Bay Stop & Shop around 2 p.m. yesterday.

Police say they found the pair at Columbia Road and Dorchester Avenue - and recovered the victim's iPod.

Stop & Shop thinks you're an idiot

adamg — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:20:10 -0500

Amy puts the chain on notice she noticed how they raised prices fairly dramatically one week, then lowered them by a few cents the next week just to put up all these little signs about how Stop & Shop is lowering prices.

When a girl strays

adamg — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:36:05 -0400

Sarah confesses and explains:

... Sure, I have brief flings with Russo's and Shaw's. But in the end Stop and Shop is like that deadbeat boyfriend you can't seem to break up with because the relationship is just so convenient.

But I have a confession to make. There is another contender in the mix.

Sometimes ... just SOMETIMES ... I go to Hannaford. ...

Droopy drawers

adamg — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:24:53 -0500

It was more than Gienna could stand: The kid stacking the packaged salad greens at her local Stop & Shop had his pants somewhere well south of his hips, letting her see just what kind of cotton undies covered his butt:

... "Pull your pants up," I said.

"What?" he said.

"I said, '"PULL YOUR PANTS UP."' ...