Stop & Shop
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The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company is a chain of supermarkets based primarily in New England. Stop & Shop was founded in 1914 in Somerville, Massachusetts by the Rabinovitz family as the Economy Grocery Stores Company. The company officially became known as Stop and Shop in 1946.
Stop & Shop purchased the now-defunct department store chain Bradlees in 1961, and sold it in 1992. They also operated a chain of pharmacies named Medi-Mart, which was sold to Walgreens in the late 1980s.
Stop & Shop is now the largest food retailer in New England. It operates 345 stores throughout the region, and also in New York and New Jersey. Their corporate headquqarters are in Quincy, Massachusetts and their distribution facilities are located in Assonet, Massachusetts. The chain was purchased by the American branch of Dutch food giant Ahold in 1996.
In 2004, Ahold merged Stop & Shop with its Giant Food company and created one combined company with the name of Giant-Stop & Shop.
Stop-n-Shop is an unrelated Ohio-based supermarket specializing in home delivery.[1]