Retail Watchers

These are about the size of many other supermarkets in New York City. I would estimate that the average NYC supermarket is 15-20,000 square feet, with plenty below 15 or even 10,000. The one they're opening first is a former Food Emporium. Now, Whole Foods actually used this "Daily Shop" f...

Stop & Shop is the only mainstream supermarket I can find with actual NYC stores (none in Manhattan though), and it stretches from New York City to Boston. If it's up for sale, who's gonna buy it? Albertsons (assuming no merger) can't buy it in whole unless it wants to divest a good chunk of AC...

@marketreportblog Based on your descriptions of the stores, it seems that Stop and Shop went all in on large stores in the early 2000s. Other than the stores that are former Edwards locations, how many of these massive stores are built off the Super Stop and Shop model? My understanding is that mod...

Had more time today to check out 11 more Stop & Shop stores in the Newark, NJ area, Staten Island, and a few in central Jersey. Now I don't know what to think. On the whole, these stores are WAY better run than the Bergen/Passaic county stores I visited last week, but still, lots of problems wit...

Also someone mentioned up thread somewhere about pharmacies being closed in Stop & Shop Stores in some cases. What is that all about. Does Ahold have a tract record of random pharmacy closures too? Haven't checked outside of NJ, but the thing about the NJ stores is that so few of them had pharm...

Oh and you haven't fully photographed the store with the Edwards decor you should. That is straight out of the late 90s/early 2000s when Giant-PA went to the large dual entrance stores. I'm amazed that Stop and Shop is still operating a store with that old, old decor. The only one in NJ is in Pisca...

It sounds like they need to do something to basically dissolve it and split it up. They could move the remaining New England Stores that do well into Hannaford. Maybe C&S could take some of the other stores. What is the average store size of these Stop & Shop units? The ones I saw in the pa...

Could they just rebrand some of these to Giant-PA format? Stop & Shop is very weak. Market Basket has been kicking them around for years. What I find strange is Hannaford seems to have smaller stores but seems run better and is more effective. I am not sure what the issue with Stop & Shop i...

Of the pictures above that show store decor, they all have the yellow walls and purple writing decor package. At this point that decor is 20 years old. It wasn't a great decor, in my opinion, when it came out and now it just gets lost on the walls of the store. I guess Ahold is just not putting any...

I'm back to thinking about the health of Stop & Shop. Back in November, their ecommerce facility in Jersey City closed , and the online shopping was switched to Instacart and DoorDash from the stores. More recently, people particularly in New York City note that Stop & Shop no longer deliver...