Stop & Shop

The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company is a chain of supermarkets located mostly 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 & Shop, Inc. in 1946.

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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.

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Stop & Shop is now the largest food retailer in New England. It operates more than 360 stores throughout New England, as well as New York and New Jersey. Their corporate headquarters are in Quincy, Massachusetts and their distribution facilities are located in Assonet, Massachusetts.

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The chain was acquired by the American branch of Dutch food giant Ahold in 1996. In 2004, Ahold integrated Stop & Shop Supermarkets with Giant Food LLC and created one combined company with the name of Ahold USA.

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