Communities should actively try to have more locations in Massachusetts. Nobody can beat their prices...& quality. $2.59 for a gallon of regular milk & ALL registers open!
@@clairelivefreeordie2551 I really wish I was closer to a market basket. Being downtown and no car, the convenient place for me is the Trader Joe's in Back bay.
In North Reading, MA they closed their store, bought the plaza with Shaws up the road and reopened where Shaws once stood. The store is smaller and located on the far northside of town. They then rented their original property (centrally located) to a Job Lots blocking any other grocer from opening in town.
Was it legal? Did you vote for the people who approved that variance? Don't complain, call them now. Have everyone in N. Reading call the mayor. Do any other supermarkets even want to open there? I don't live next to Market Basket but I go out of my way. The food at stop&shop is always rotten. They buy the land, it is their right to deed and use the land as they please. Zoning and building department DO NOT have to APPROVE them operating in the city.
You are absolutely right about lane. When I was at PWC, I audited the company. When I looked at their books, the first thing I thought was THIS IS A REAL ESTATE COMPANY!
I worked at one for almost 5 years I met some of the best people working there, and we were all treated like trash. this is why i refuse to work for corporations. Because of the way they treat their employees constantly telling us that we are replaceable. They cut your hours so you cant get ahead awful! Now they are treating the customers the same way, because they don't care. They don't care how much you cry and complain about the prices or the product as long as you keep buying it. If you want to see change Stop going and refuse to buy There junk. That's all they care about is the bottom line.
@mikeurban thank you They do! every person working especially those supporting a family deserves to have an employer that shows them dignity and respect. Especially a company that makes well over 4 billion a year. Stopie opened my eyes to corporate greed and their lack of respect for those that are actually making the company most of the money.
We live in Dorchester and have stopped shopping at S & S and Star's. We drive to Hanover and shop at the Market Basket and the Trader Joe's in the same plaza. The service and savings is worth the 30 minute trip.
I am in a city that is within about 5-7 minutes of Market Basket, Stop & Shop, Hannafords, Star Market and Shaws. I shop the sale circulars and digital coupons for all of them and save a LOT of money by doing that. BTW...also have Costco and BJs within 5-10 minutes of my house.
I live in Nonantum Village area in Newton, 5 min walking to an S&S. I avoid it like the plague. I am very sensitive to smells and everytime I HAVE to go there for an urgent something I hold my nose at the smelly entrance and will never again set foot in their bathroom: entered, left, held my breath, entered again, peed as fast as I could and run out the door (indescribable putrid smell). I learned enough to never set foot in any of their stores again. Excellent podcast. You got a like and a new subscriber!
You are absolutely right. I only go to Stop and Steal when I am in a hurry and don’t want to deal with lines. I will pay more for the convenience. I know there is never a line there always plenty of parking and occasionally they have good deals like now they have ribeye roast for $6.95 a pound bone in. I bought a few. Even BJ and Costco it’s $13.49 a pound for a full 15 pound piece. Ultimately I ended up with 15 pounds at $140 which as still only $10 a pound after I trimmed it myself. But yes I completely agree stop and shop is a convenience store.
Wow, you absolutely crushed the whole Shop & Stop experience. I’ve always felt that exact same way but could never put it into words. And here you are, just casually dropping the perfect description! Bravo!
I'm glad we're having this conversation finally! I only go to Stop and Shop because I drive by it to and from work, it's so expensive compared to Market Basket or Aldi's. I had to get onto food stamps recently, Market Basket doesn't take EBT (at least mine doesn't). I've started shopping at Target too for groceries some of their prices are really good, the crazy part is their CEO came out and pretty much said they used to overcharge for groceries because they could and now that groceries are high they made theirs low so people would buy with them.
12:24 The reason why retailers change the planogram every so often is because regular customers start to learn where the items they want are located and we will make a beeline for just those items. That does not help sales. So stores like Walmart, stop and Shop, etc will change the arrangement of the store to force you to walk around and be exposed to more product in the hopes that it will drive sales up.
Not only this, in Roxbury they charging 30-40% more than Needham if Im not mistaken. There was an investigation from a local journalist couple years ago.
Yes because of the theft High theft stores are always more Expensive because they have to adjust to make up their losses. That's why all corporate stores are leaving bad areas it's not worth it To them. They don't need to steal More than half the people use EBT They can't help themselves.
I stopped going to Stop & Shop 3 years ago when the grass-fed steak started going bad every time I bought it. Now I shop at farms and stopped using supermarkets altogether thereby cutting my grocery bill in half along with my weight ❤
The packages of lamb at my Stop & Shop are always expanded looking like they're gonna burst, meaning they're releasing gasses because they've gone off. I've never seen one package look right.
Stop and shop has the highest prices in my area every time they have a sale you need a stop and shop card and a digital coupon that is difficult to figure out its a rip-off to deny that you get the sale price
I worked at the headquarters for years and I can tell you for a fact that they do not care about their employees and they really don’t care about the shoppers. Once Ahold handed over stop and shop to the Giant executives everything went straight down hill. You can literally see it happen. They were great until about 2010.
This is why I shop at Market Basket. I live across from Stopping Shop warehouse on the Fallriver mass Freetown Mass line.And I have a Shaws less then 2 miles away and 2 Stopping Shops as well.But Market Basket is so much better.
I usually try to go to Market Basket, but like you mentioned, there are more Stop & Shops around my area. So, I end up going to Stop & Shop since it’s closer!
Only reason I go to Stop & Shop is to use their Citizens Bank branch lol the one in Lowell is pretty much dead every time I go there. Market Basket and Hannaford are running circles around them.
I live in NyC. They are very prevalent here. In the D.C. area it is called “Giant”. These big Supermarket chains have so much control over market. It’s sad
When I lived in MA, I shopped at Roche Brothers instead of Stop & Shop. Roche Brothers isn’t cheap, but the produce is much better. Now that I’ve moved to NH, the only halfway decent grocery store seems to be Whole Paycheck.
in my experience this seems very true. it was actually the self checkouts that drove me to MB. but store infrastructure was falling apart too. still buy produce at WF
South Yarmouth MA has 2 S&S stores (WHY ?!?), and, one Shaw's which are all within 5-8 minutes drive of the house so I generally use those stores for convenience and for items that are similar prices elsewhere and for on sale items because they are close by -BUT I do drive to Hyannis,MA TJ's for most of my big shopping trips - and sometimes will hit the Whole Foods Market there for the few items on sale or when needing better produce than TJs.
@@allentarver6286 The govt is NOT keeping up with consumer price index like the plague Cost of living out of sight-Democrat Biden over burdening bureaucratic regulations cost us ALL
There is no clearer example of this than looking at the Quincy Center store vs the store in Hingham. The Quincy location has at least some competition from the Star Market down the street. The prices of many products are usually much better here than they are for the exact same items at the Hingham store that is only 4 miles away. I hate going the extra 4 miles because it'll usually add 40 minutes back and forth (especially in Friday evening traffic) Thankfully there is a Market Basket in Hanover now. We usually go there now. But its not convenient when in a pinch.
I buy from stop and shop only when they have deals.when they have good deals I buy a lot of whatever I'm buying. Butter, meats ,onions peppers I vacuum seal then freeze them. Here in Dorchester there are so many more places to shop. Angles meat market across from dorchester court house has great deals for the meat eater.
Very true; Angels need to expand but keep in mind Stop& Shop is mega giant with resources with a brainstorming real es😂tate development team that via corporate interest can undermine any retail grocery entity within miles of anything they purchase from an investment standpoint. Scary 😮
I frequent the Quincy Stop & Shops and they are pretty good. The recent inventory issues have been challenging, especially with grass-fed meat and milk, but I generally have better experiences there compared to Shaws and Star Market. The presence of the Ahold headquarters in Quincy might contribute to the quality of their nearby stores. There was also a Hannaford store in Quincy not long ago, but I read that it closed after the merger.
My mom goes to Market Basket. Most moms in Boston have been going to Market Basket for over 20 years now. Maybe your argument makes sense in rural areas of New England.
Get a good lawyer and File lawsuits they automized ours so I stopped shopping there will never go back they fired over half the staff and went self serve self checkout screw that.
I don’t have stop and shop near me now, but used to. I lived in a town with no market until they came in. They were fine at the time. Stopped in a bunch of years later and was surprised at the prices and lack of selection. But that town is a rich now. Hence why I don’t live there anymore. Now I have MB and Market 32 aka Price Chopper. Stop and shop is doing a disservice to communities. When you have billions in profit year in and year out its nothing more than greed.
The one in Chelmsford is near a market basket - like right across the street The one in Hudson NH was also across from market basket but that’s a goodwill now and has been for years, guess the deed thing did that I bought meat from them once and it was expired 4 days. Walmart meat isn’t much better but it isn’t actively expired, but will expire 2-3 days after. Market basket however I’ve never had an issue with meat there and it’s cheaper for example 10 burgers are 12 bucks
they closed the stores in communities that needed the store. There used to be three or four stop and shops in Brockton now there are none Done for stock holders not communities. under performing stores they say . what a load of crap. they are racist
Yup that's another reason why they don't care it's not an American company. It's more about their portfolio as a corporation then as a neighborhood grocer
@Frank-r3y2i terrible, awful company There not American so they don't care About anything but money They don't care about the customers the product and especially the employees.
Can you talk about the gas points scam. I have gas points on the fob but the fob doesn’t work at the gas station. S&S said you need to use the phone app for the gas points but you cannot transfer the points from the fob to the app. If you do have gas points on the app, it will not work at the pump. Another scam! 😡😡😡
Market Basket is a way to go. There are a few items that Walmart beats them on, but not many. Their dairy is very reasonable and the least expensive that you'll find in most areas, until you get up into Maine. I get outright pissed off going into stop and Shop and I just don't do it anymore. They have banners hung up like their prices of the greatest thing around when they charge 6 or $7 a pound for the same Land o' lakes cheese that you can get at Market Basket for $5 and change. And I've seen hannaford's mentioned in a couple of comments. They are a sister store of stop & Shop and owned by the same parent company, that's why they both carry that nature's pride crap or whatever it's called.
i shop at the store because I support unions & it used to be a decent store back in the day (i'm 68) but the quality & availability of items, especially in the produce aisles, has gone deplorable. also, talk about egg prices! i also go for the pharmacy included in the store. i never use self checkout because of scams but mostly to support people, not machines - and the googly eye thing freaks me out
Totally back up the high prices. I’m devoted to Market Basket and I’ll take my receipt and online shop the list at S&S, Shaws, & Wegmans all consistently higher by >%15. Shocking that the Natick Wegmans failed so quickly
That's because they have 20 year old produce buyers. It's a mess over there in Quincy. And it has never rebounded from Covid. Many if their workers are unionized too
The reality is all the big grocers play the property game. It’s just a given. What stands out to partially explain all the other points in the video is this parent company is spending each year over 1 Billion dollars in stock buybacks and dividend payouts. That money is not reinvested in employees or facilities or, for that matter, in a better quality of produce etc.
Wait I didn't get the deed restriction stuff. What do they actually do? How can we verify it? And how is it legal? FWIW, the Stop and Shop that's 5 mins where I live just closed, and it's being replaced by H-Mart
Massachusetts especially the city of Boston is allowing this because they are union. Notice there’s a Walmart ban implemented by mayor menino. So market basket and Walmart can’t enter the city of Boston. The people suffer from this and high pricing because of the Walmart affect
I've said this many times, every Stop & Shop bathroom is disgusting. I always feel dirty when I leave it. Then I, and everyone else that uses it, go and handle the food. Walmart bathrooms are much cleaner and many more people pass through a Walmart than a Stop & Shop.
Crappy company, In bourne we have a Market Basket, and a new Aldi's in Falmouth. Walmart in Wareham.....Never shop there. Shaw's is rip off too, but better quality. Plan and boycott them...Good job Mike, good channel
hannaford is based in maine and all over new england with dozens of MA locations including one in Waltham check it out yourself, stop & shop is a horror house in comparison
Isn't Stop&Shop owned by a foreign corporation? A Dutch corporation? There's 5 in my area. Roughly 5 to 10 miles a part. We used to have a Shaw's (closed down 15 years ago) but Stop&Shop under cutted them when they opened another store in my area and brought a parking lot adjacent to Shaw's. A Market Basket opened in my area couple of years ago, the prices are better but its always busy and chaotic. We don't an have an Aldi's but we have a Walmart.
That's interesting. We're in Seekonk, MA and besides BJ's, Target and Walmart, its only haf 2 stop and shops, BJ's, Walmart and Target for its 18 plus square miles and pop of 18,000 and lots of RI people coming in. But Whole Foods and Market Basket is coming, and I doubt we'll shop W F's but I'll be very happy to have Market Basket. It's has emplyee profit sharing I think. S and Shop keeps getting rid of name brands for their own, and the quality keeps getting worse. But $$$ go up. Great information, thank you.
Here's the thing. Not all businesses are created equal. Some, like Stop & Shop, are actually pricing in honesty. Some of the best companies go by regional dicta. As a transplant from Florida, to Mass. It always pissed me off that most national companies priced based on national cost of operation. There is no reason as a Floridian, I should be paying a price base on Mass, NY, NJ, CA, energy prices. Their income taxes, their labor prices or any other factors that aren't imposed by my State. Personally, I think it would better serve the businesses and people to hold this position. If corporations be steadfast in this position, they may lose out to smaller regional businesses, but would in the long run be better served when the people were finally able to see what their politicians cause and affects are. It would lower the overall cost when the politicians are held to account their actions, and those who want these people causing these inflated prices to happen are directly affected instead of minimal impact due to national collectivism calculations. As stated, I now live in People's Republic-less of Massachusetts. I still feel as though I should be penalized for moving here since it is the State that has created the penalty, not the Nation as a whole. Electricity is traded as a commodity in this State (WTF factor ran through my head) instead of (as in Florida) being treated as a locally created product being dictated by the cost to produce scale overseen by the consumer protection board. It's 1/3rd the price per kW in Fl. BTW. Off peak pricing is even lower. How large corporations can defend national pricing is offensive to me. They don't have to defend because no one has questioned his practice. Large corporations can lower prices because of national income, whereas smaller businesses bare the full brunt of force in local areas. This is a disadvantage by its very definition. As far as all the other stuff you mention;. It's against the law to sell expired meat, everyone knows this and would have been shutdown if true. They do sell discounted meat nearing the expiration. You buy it today but don't use it for 3 days? That's on you bro! The robot? He pisses me off! I'm not really sure how he works but when staff has to front-face product, I'm not really sure what he can spot when it's faced. Maybe it's to ensure store employees are doing what they should be. Not really sure? But you can confuse him by playing a game of foot chess with him. Stand in front of it and wait for it to move. When it deviates, jump in front of it's action. Keep doing it till it looks like it's thinking. It's fun! Oh, also, if any business has a physical location with very little profit margins, brick & mortar with web competition, it is a super smart business practice to put limitations in the contract. You even see it in strip-malls where Mc-Donnald's may have location in it where no other business can sell burgers-chicken products- bun'ed items, etc. It's called protected use rights. The cape has been trying to keep large businesses out of it's areas for decades, this is illegal for one, but the other is if they refuse, than the lawful owner of the property has a right of refusal. It's the "like me, suck me, fuck me" screw you too, doctrine. Not a legal term, but a term of defiance.
Stop & shop does a blanket I it's been in 17 million on the disaster called Marty But is willing to go on strike because they don't want to give their work as a quarter raise Thats right. A Quarter!
Eastham is pronounced “East ham” not “East um”, Chatham very close by is “Chat um”… The State has many towns that vary how the ending “ham” is pronounced.
Stop & Shop has been on a slide for a while, I feel it has accelerated since their parent, Royal Ahold, merged with Delhaize. Ahold Delhaize got rid of bfresh (I miss bfresh) cut staffing at Stop & Shop and is making the chain more and more like Food Lion, which they also own.
Or you could call ahold in Quincy mass and complain.Because everyone who works in the Quincy office lives in Massachusetts and probably shops.At the same grocery stores you're shopping at
Where I used to live, the MB in the town next to mine (border state) was repacking older hamburger, mixed inside newer hamburger. How do I know? Because hamburger browns (ages) from the outside, in .. not from the inside, out. 🤔 People should be watchful for this with any supermarket.
BUT our local S&S serves only to keep prices down at Market Baskets who have great products as well as the ones with M/B name on it (locations near me) and best "international food" section. Aldi (multinational) is scary. Their products r heavily salted (cheap preservative) for shelf-life, so must sit on container ships and is same as Dollar store quality. Aft learning from employees of S&S that its actually policy to ignore out-of-date items and moldy produce i buy very lil in a pinch bc i'm allergic to mold. Tho now S&S is offering an easy solution to bad food yet the inconvenience isn't worth it. A S&S store near me never at anytime has more than few customers and many wearing a scowl on their face while employees are grumpy too.
Market basket is king, as far as I am concerned. There is a stop and shop, down the street from where I work in Beverly, and I only go there in a pinch. Yes, their prices are ridiculous. I live in Southern NH, and I shop both Market baskets in Seabrook, and Exeter. I love the smaller MB, by the old vacant Ames. I am disappointed that there are way too many Spanish only speakers in the super size Seabrook store. That's not a good thing. The employees need to speak the native language where they live, which remains ENGLISH. "Tolerance" is way beyond tiresome in 2024-25! Market basket prices have gone up as well, though I don't think the store ever tries to gouge it's patrons. Want a good full size large pizza for normal prices? Order them through the fresh meals, deli area in the super size MB in Seabrook! Great pizza, great price! I am in my 60's, and have been a Market basket customer first, most of my life. There are Hannafords near me , closer than Market basket, and I will pop in there for convenience. Prices there are also slightly higher, but not terrible.
How is Stop and Shop still in business? Market Baskets are packed, in the extremely rare occasions where ive gone into a Stop and Shop they are ghost towns. I do my shopping for commodity goods at Market Basket. For higher quality, at higher prices, there is Whole Foods and especially Wegmans. I don't see where Stop and Shop, ir Shaws, fits in. Market Basket is locally owned, Stop and Shop and Shaws are owned by giant chains that aren't focused on the New England market
The use of shell companies and LLC's to buy property is nothing new. Market Basket, which is where I prefer to shop, owns a lot of the plazas that they are in. It's just a smart business practice to have a separate real estate company own the property, and then your supermarket pays your real estate company rent, and now that is a business expense that can be written off even though the money is never actually changing hands in reality.
I drive pass them on my way to market basket every weekend.😂😂😂
Communities should actively try to have more locations in Massachusetts. Nobody can beat their prices...& quality. $2.59 for a gallon of regular milk & ALL registers open!
@@clairelivefreeordie2551 I really wish I was closer to a market basket. Being downtown and no car, the convenient place for me is the Trader Joe's in Back bay.
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I love my Basket...but Stop and Shops produce and meat is waaay better quality.
@@killertofu9188 oh no, I don't agree
Their prices are outrageous,but Shaw's are even More Outrageous.
At least Shaws is clean, happy employees, and fresh produce.
Market basket is the way the go.
So far away from Springfield mass... The closest one is oxford Massachusetts... Which is 50 minutes away.
In North Reading, MA they closed their store, bought the plaza with Shaws up the road and reopened where Shaws once stood. The store is smaller and located on the far northside of town. They then rented their original property (centrally located) to a Job Lots blocking any other grocer from opening in town.
I saw that, we go to the spirit store that opens year round I think it's on the same property
Was it legal? Did you vote for the people who approved that variance? Don't complain, call them now. Have everyone in N. Reading call the mayor. Do any other supermarkets even want to open there? I don't live next to Market Basket but I go out of my way. The food at stop&shop is always rotten. They buy the land, it is their right to deed and use the land as they please. Zoning and building department DO NOT have to APPROVE them operating in the city.
You are absolutely right about lane. When I was at PWC, I audited the company. When I looked at their books, the first thing I thought was THIS IS A REAL ESTATE COMPANY!
So was Sears.
I worked at one for almost 5 years
I met some of the best people working there, and we were all treated like trash.
this is why i refuse to work for corporations.
Because of the way they treat their employees constantly telling us that we are replaceable.
They cut your hours so you cant get ahead awful! Now they are treating the customers the same way, because they don't care.
They don't care how much you cry and complain about the prices or the product as long as you keep buying it.
If you want to see change
Stop going and refuse to buy
There junk. That's all they care about is the bottom line.
I appreciate you chiming in. I appreciate the employees that work there and think they deserve better as well.
@mikeurban thank you
They do! every person working especially those supporting a family deserves to have an employer that shows them dignity and respect. Especially a company that makes well over 4 billion a year. Stopie opened my eyes to corporate greed and their lack of respect for those that are actually making the company most of the money.
I worked at the main warehouse in Freetown and it was the same there too!
We live in Dorchester and have stopped shopping at S & S and Star's. We drive to Hanover and shop at the Market Basket and the Trader Joe's in the same plaza. The service and savings is worth the 30 minute trip.
same here. the S&S on Morrissey is an absolute joke.
I am in a city that is within about 5-7 minutes of Market Basket, Stop & Shop, Hannafords, Star Market and Shaws. I shop the sale circulars and digital coupons for all of them and save a LOT of money by doing that. BTW...also have Costco and BJs within 5-10 minutes of my house.
Sometimes if I need groceries after 9:00 PM Stop and Shop is the only place to go.
Hannaford has at least 15 stores in Massachusetts and dozens more in NH and Maine
I hate to break it to you, but Hannaford is a sister store to stop & Shop. They are both owned by the same parent company.
Stop Shop has been extremely cruel to their customers for many years now.
Finally someone has shed light on this and the roots of the problem..
I live in Nonantum Village area in Newton, 5 min walking to an S&S. I avoid it like the plague. I am very sensitive to smells and everytime I HAVE to go there for an urgent something I hold my nose at the smelly entrance and will never again set foot in their bathroom: entered, left, held my breath, entered again, peed as fast as I could and run out the door (indescribable putrid smell). I learned enough to never set foot in any of their stores again. Excellent podcast. You got a like and a new subscriber!
I live in Provincetown and drive to the bridge to go to market basket
You are absolutely right. I only go to Stop and Steal when I am in a hurry and don’t want to deal with lines. I will pay more for the convenience. I know there is never a line there always plenty of parking and occasionally they have good deals like now they have ribeye roast for $6.95 a pound bone in. I bought a few. Even BJ and Costco it’s $13.49 a pound for a full 15 pound piece. Ultimately I ended up with 15 pounds at $140 which as still only $10 a pound after I trimmed it myself. But yes I completely agree stop and shop is a convenience store.
that's what I do.I vacuum seal the meats/butter/onions/pepper then freeze them. Usually last me till the next sale price.
9.95 lb in my city's Ad paper.
For one it's not prime. it's the lowest grade of Choice. it's not even "choice select" I don't care how cheap it is I much rather have quality beef.
Wow, you absolutely crushed the whole Shop & Stop experience. I’ve always felt that exact same way but could never put it into words. And here you are, just casually dropping the perfect description! Bravo!
Now you know why lol
I'm glad we're having this conversation finally! I only go to Stop and Shop because I drive by it to and from work, it's so expensive compared to Market Basket or Aldi's. I had to get onto food stamps recently, Market Basket doesn't take EBT (at least mine doesn't). I've started shopping at Target too for groceries some of their prices are really good, the crazy part is their CEO came out and pretty much said they used to overcharge for groceries because they could and now that groceries are high they made theirs low so people would buy with them.
12:24 The reason why retailers change the planogram every so often is because regular customers start to learn where the items they want are located and we will make a beeline for just those items. That does not help sales. So stores like Walmart, stop and Shop, etc will change the arrangement of the store to force you to walk around and be exposed to more product in the hopes that it will drive sales up.
Same for convenience stores who stock the milk at the rear of the store.
Not only this, in Roxbury they charging 30-40% more than Needham if Im not mistaken. There was an investigation from a local journalist couple years ago.
Really?! Can you email me the article by chance
You are mistaken. The teenagers cherry picked items that do not represent the price variation.
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Yes because of the theft
High theft stores are always more
Expensive because they have to adjust to make up their losses.
That's why all corporate stores are leaving bad areas it's not worth it
To them. They don't need to steal
More than half the people use EBT
They can't help themselves.
I stopped going to Stop & Shop 3 years ago when the grass-fed steak started going bad every time I bought it. Now I shop at farms and stopped using supermarkets altogether thereby cutting my grocery bill in half along with my weight ❤
The packages of lamb at my Stop & Shop are always expanded looking like they're gonna burst, meaning they're releasing gasses because they've gone off. I've never seen one package look right.
How did you find farms that you can buy from.
Stop and shop has the highest prices in my area every time they have a sale you need a stop and shop card and a digital coupon that is difficult to figure out its a rip-off to deny that you get the sale price
I worked at the headquarters for years and I can tell you for a fact that they do not care about their employees and they really don’t care about the shoppers. Once Ahold handed over stop and shop to the Giant executives everything went straight down hill. You can literally see it happen. They were great until about 2010.
This is why I shop at Market Basket. I live across from Stopping Shop warehouse on the Fallriver mass Freetown Mass line.And I have a Shaws less then 2 miles away and 2 Stopping Shops as well.But Market Basket is so much better.
I usually try to go to Market Basket, but like you mentioned, there are more Stop & Shops around my area. So, I end up going to Stop & Shop since it’s closer!
Stop & Shop now reminds me of A&P during its final days. I go to Big Y or ShopRite.
Wow memories A&P was from my childhood.
Mike - awesome content dude. Keep it up.
appreciate that!
Only reason I go to Stop & Shop is to use their Citizens Bank branch lol the one in Lowell is pretty much dead every time I go there. Market Basket and Hannaford are running circles around them.
I live in NyC. They are very prevalent here. In the D.C. area it is called “Giant”. These big Supermarket chains have so much control over market. It’s sad
I went to a Giant in DC for the first time and I could not believe how bad it was. Made Stop & Shop look nice.
I shop in the Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn Stop and Shop, all the time. I love it.
When I lived in MA, I shopped at Roche Brothers instead of Stop & Shop. Roche Brothers isn’t cheap, but the produce is much better. Now that I’ve moved to NH, the only halfway decent grocery store seems to be Whole Paycheck.
in my experience this seems very true. it was actually the self checkouts that drove me to MB. but store infrastructure was falling apart too. still buy produce at WF
South Yarmouth MA has 2 S&S stores (WHY ?!?), and, one Shaw's which are all within 5-8 minutes drive of the house so I generally use those stores for convenience and for items that are similar prices elsewhere and for on sale items because they are close by -BUT I do drive to Hyannis,MA TJ's for most of my big shopping trips - and sometimes will hit the Whole Foods Market there for the few items on sale or when needing better produce than TJs.
Hannaford is ONLY in the Northeast.
Shop in the suburbs Northshore it’s cheaper out here-I went to Stoppie in Cambridge almost fell down at the prices-!
Cambridge is outa control!! a small soda out of the fridge cost me almost $5
@@allentarver6286 The govt is NOT keeping up with consumer price index like the plague
Cost of living out of sight-Democrat Biden over burdening bureaucratic regulations cost us ALL
I wish I had a car
There is no Stop and Shop in Cambridge
Stop & shop charges $15 for a certain deli meat , the butcher shop in my town sells the same boars head chicken for $7.59 pound.
There is no clearer example of this than looking at the Quincy Center store vs the store in Hingham. The Quincy location has at least some competition from the Star Market down the street. The prices of many products are usually much better here than they are for the exact same items at the Hingham store that is only 4 miles away. I hate going the extra 4 miles because it'll usually add 40 minutes back and forth (especially in Friday evening traffic) Thankfully there is a Market Basket in Hanover now. We usually go there now. But its not convenient when in a pinch.
Lived near Roxbury and this is so true for Stop & Shop. I like Trader Joe’s more, but they’re further away
Unfortunately, Market Basket refuses to move into Connecticut. Doesn’t help when good companies will not even try to come to our state.
Hannaford is in the North East though lol. We have a bunch in NH. They're a lot cleaner than other grocery stores but a lot more expensive.
Yeah there's a few in Massachusetts too. Idk where he got that info.
I buy from stop and shop only when they have deals.when they have good deals I buy a lot of whatever I'm buying. Butter, meats ,onions peppers I vacuum seal then freeze them. Here in Dorchester there are so many more places to shop. Angles meat market across from dorchester court house has great deals for the meat eater.
Very true; Angels need to expand but keep in mind Stop& Shop is mega giant with resources with a brainstorming real es😂tate development team that via corporate interest can undermine any retail grocery entity within miles of anything they purchase from an investment standpoint. Scary 😮
I frequent the Quincy Stop & Shops and they are pretty good. The recent inventory issues have been challenging, especially with grass-fed meat and milk, but I generally have better experiences there compared to Shaws and Star Market. The presence of the Ahold headquarters in Quincy might contribute to the quality of their nearby stores. There was also a Hannaford store in Quincy not long ago, but I read that it closed after the merger.
they recently did a renovation at our local store, but its more or less the same stuff. Shaws and star market are great.
It sounds like he lives in Stoneham lol. Those bathrooms are nasty
My mom goes to Market Basket. Most moms in Boston have been going to Market Basket for over 20 years now. Maybe your argument makes sense in rural areas of New England.
It was NIMBYS that kept S&S monopoly in my town. But it is cheaper for me to get my groceries delivered from Wal mart.
The one in Brockton closed and I there are already so many grocery stores in the city
Get a good lawyer and File lawsuits they automized ours so I stopped shopping there will never go back they fired over half the staff and went self serve self checkout screw that.
Hannafords, my main store in Massachusetts, originated in Maine I think!
same company as stop n shop
That restriction is a violation of anti monopoly laws
I don’t have stop and shop near me now, but used to. I lived in a town with no market until they came in. They were fine at the time. Stopped in a bunch of years later and was surprised at the prices and lack of selection. But that town is a rich now. Hence why I don’t live there anymore. Now I have MB and Market 32 aka Price Chopper. Stop and shop is doing a disservice to communities. When you have billions in profit year in and year out its nothing more than greed.
The one in Chelmsford is near a market basket - like right across the street
The one in Hudson NH was also across from market basket but that’s a goodwill now and has been for years, guess the deed thing did that
I bought meat from them once and it was expired 4 days. Walmart meat isn’t much better but it isn’t actively expired, but will expire 2-3 days after.
Market basket however I’ve never had an issue with meat there and it’s cheaper for example 10 burgers are 12 bucks
Stop and Shop is owned by a dutch company called Ahold. They have an ooerations center in Quincy with their US headquarters in Carliske, PA.
they closed the stores in communities that needed the store. There used to be three or four stop and shops in Brockton now there are none
Done for stock holders not communities. under performing stores they say . what a load of crap. they are racist
Yup that's another reason why they don't care it's not an American company. It's more about their portfolio as a corporation then as a neighborhood grocer
Stop n Shop ,Giant Food
Ahold corp.
Same stores
After reading some of the comments, it seems as though AHOLE would be a better name for the company.
@Frank-r3y2i terrible, awful company
There not American so they don't care
About anything but money
They don't care about the customers the product and especially the employees.
I worked for stop and shop for 7+ years… would recommend going somewhere else for shopping or employment
Luckily here in Wareham we have a Super Walmart, Shaw's and a Stop and Shop and we haven't been into S&S in ages.
I have one near me, I rarely shop there and their prices are outrageous. I mostly go to Trader Joe’s or MB. They are both a little further.
Can you talk about the gas points scam. I have gas points on the fob but the fob doesn’t work at the gas station. S&S said you need to use the phone app for the gas points but you cannot transfer the points from the fob to the app. If
you do have gas points on the app, it will not work at the pump. Another scam! 😡😡😡
Market Basket is a way to go. There are a few items that Walmart beats them on, but not many. Their dairy is very reasonable and the least expensive that you'll find in most areas, until you get up into Maine.
I get outright pissed off going into stop and Shop and I just don't do it anymore. They have banners hung up like their prices of the greatest thing around when they charge 6 or $7 a pound for the same Land o' lakes cheese that you can get at Market Basket for $5 and change.
And I've seen hannaford's mentioned in a couple of comments. They are a sister store of stop & Shop and owned by the same parent company, that's why they both carry that nature's pride crap or whatever it's called.
Ahold Delahaize is the problem. They don’t care about the crappy stores or the warehouses.
i shop at the store because I support unions & it used to be a decent store back in the day (i'm 68) but the quality & availability of items, especially in the produce aisles, has gone deplorable. also, talk about egg prices! i also go for the pharmacy included in the store. i never use self checkout because of scams but mostly to support people, not machines - and the googly eye thing freaks me out
Chicopee aka Springfield area. Stop a shop has stores around here but the biggest and best one is definitely Chicopee big y or south Hadleys
Totally back up the high prices. I’m devoted to Market Basket and I’ll take my receipt and online shop the list at S&S, Shaws, & Wegmans all consistently higher by >%15. Shocking that the Natick Wegmans failed so quickly
I’ve been going to market basket my whole life. I’ve only been to stop and shop maybe 2 or 3 times.
They also own Giant down south. Its obvious because of the branding.
Hannaford, Food Lion, Giant Food, and Stop & Shop
That's because they have 20 year old produce buyers. It's a mess over there in Quincy. And it has never rebounded from Covid. Many if their workers are unionized too
Yea i live in hydepark no market basket sucks only price rite and they suck so i have to go to stop n shit to get what i cant anywhere else
Whole Foods is cheaper. I buy a certain brand of chips $1.50 more at S&S . If you buy 365 Whole Foods brand definitely cheaper.
Whole Foods is cheaper?
what brand? lol
Hannaford is big in new hampshire and maine for sure
Hannaford is in nh we have em in almost every town in southern nh
I shop there when used live at Bristol NH
The reality is all the big grocers play the property game. It’s just a given. What stands out to partially explain all the other points in the video is this parent company is spending each year over 1 Billion dollars in stock buybacks and dividend payouts. That money is not reinvested in employees or facilities or, for that matter, in a better quality of produce etc.
Ahold also owns Giant Landover, Giant Carlisle and Food Lion.
Wait I didn't get the deed restriction stuff. What do they actually do? How can we verify it? And how is it legal?
FWIW, the Stop and Shop that's 5 mins where I live just closed, and it's being replaced by H-Mart
How come there is no market basket in Boston
On Nantucket, all we have is Stop and Shop. Heck, we have 2 of them…
It's not that bad if your spending less than 100$ . But if you need to buy in bulk we all seem to go elsewhere like MB
Massachusetts especially the city of Boston is allowing this because they are union. Notice there’s a Walmart ban implemented by mayor menino. So market basket and Walmart can’t enter the city of Boston. The people suffer from this and high pricing because of the Walmart affect
I've said this many times, every Stop & Shop bathroom is disgusting. I always feel dirty when I leave it. Then I, and everyone else that uses it, go and handle the food. Walmart bathrooms are much cleaner and many more people pass through a Walmart than a Stop & Shop.
Crappy company, In bourne we have a Market Basket, and a new Aldi's in Falmouth. Walmart in Wareham.....Never shop there. Shaw's is rip off too, but better quality. Plan and boycott them...Good job Mike, good channel
hannaford is based in maine and all over new england with dozens of MA locations including one in Waltham check it out yourself, stop & shop is a horror house in comparison
closed 32 stores in the Northeast this year
Isn't Stop&Shop owned by a foreign corporation? A Dutch corporation? There's 5 in my area. Roughly 5 to 10 miles a part. We used to have a Shaw's (closed down 15 years ago) but Stop&Shop under cutted them when they opened another store in my area and brought a parking lot adjacent to Shaw's. A Market Basket opened in my area couple of years ago, the prices are better but its always busy and chaotic. We don't an have an Aldi's but we have a Walmart.
That's interesting. We're in Seekonk, MA and besides BJ's, Target and Walmart, its only haf 2 stop and shops, BJ's, Walmart and Target for its 18 plus square miles and pop of 18,000 and lots of RI people coming in. But Whole Foods and Market Basket is coming, and I doubt we'll shop W F's but I'll be very happy to have Market Basket. It's has emplyee profit sharing I think. S and Shop keeps getting rid of name brands for their own, and the quality keeps getting worse. But $$$ go up. Great information, thank you.
Here's the thing. Not all businesses are created equal.
Some, like Stop & Shop, are actually pricing in honesty.
Some of the best companies go by regional dicta. As a transplant from Florida, to Mass. It always pissed me off that most national companies priced based on national cost of operation.
There is no reason as a Floridian, I should be paying a price base on Mass, NY, NJ, CA, energy prices. Their income taxes, their labor prices or any other factors that aren't imposed by my State.
Personally, I think it would better serve the businesses and people to hold this position.
If corporations be steadfast in this position, they may lose out to smaller regional businesses, but would in the long run be better served when the people were finally able to see what their politicians cause and affects are.
It would lower the overall cost when the politicians are held to account their actions, and those who want these people causing these inflated prices to happen are directly affected instead of minimal impact due to national collectivism calculations.
As stated, I now live in People's Republic-less of Massachusetts. I still feel as though I should be penalized for moving here since it is the State that has created the penalty, not the Nation as a whole.
Electricity is traded as a commodity in this State (WTF factor ran through my head) instead of (as in Florida) being treated as a locally created product being dictated by the cost to produce scale overseen by the consumer protection board. It's 1/3rd the price per kW in Fl. BTW. Off peak pricing is even lower.
How large corporations can defend national pricing is offensive to me. They don't have to defend because no one has questioned his practice.
Large corporations can lower prices because of national income, whereas smaller businesses bare the full brunt of force in local areas. This is a disadvantage by its very definition.
As far as all the other stuff you mention;. It's against the law to sell expired meat, everyone knows this and would have been shutdown if true. They do sell discounted meat nearing the expiration. You buy it today but don't use it for 3 days? That's on you bro!
The robot? He pisses me off! I'm not really sure how he works but when staff has to front-face product, I'm not really sure what he can spot when it's faced.
Maybe it's to ensure store employees are doing what they should be. Not really sure? But you can confuse him by playing a game of foot chess with him. Stand in front of it and wait for it to move. When it deviates, jump in front of it's action. Keep doing it till it looks like it's thinking. It's fun!
Oh, also, if any business has a physical location with very little profit margins, brick & mortar with web competition, it is a super smart business practice to put limitations in the contract.
You even see it in strip-malls where Mc-Donnald's may have location in it where no other business can sell burgers-chicken products- bun'ed items, etc. It's called protected use rights.
The cape has been trying to keep large businesses out of it's areas for decades, this is illegal for one, but the other is if they refuse, than the lawful owner of the property has a right of refusal. It's the "like me, suck me, fuck me" screw you too, doctrine. Not a legal term, but a term of defiance.
Stop & shop does a blanket I it's been in 17 million on the disaster called Marty
But is willing to go on strike because they don't want to give their work as a quarter raise
Thats right. A Quarter!
I love my local stop n shop.
Hannaford in the central mass area has been trash for a couple years now
Eastham is pronounced “East ham” not “East um”, Chatham very close by is “Chat um”… The State has many towns that vary how the ending “ham” is pronounced.
Stop & Shop has been on a slide for a while, I feel it has accelerated since their parent, Royal Ahold, merged with Delhaize. Ahold Delhaize got rid of bfresh (I miss bfresh) cut staffing at Stop & Shop and is making the chain more and more like Food Lion, which they also own.
Or you could call ahold in Quincy mass and complain.Because everyone who works in the Quincy office lives in Massachusetts and probably shops.At the same grocery stores you're shopping at
They won’t and can’t do anything that their foreign corporate parent doesn’t authorize them to do. They don’t care.
Stop & Shop is extremely overpriced. Good video, didn't know this.
Thry decided to charge for paper bags and the state never passed a ban. That's all you need to know.
Sorry burst your bubble so do walmart so do Big Y but wanna complain only about stop shop 😆
The quincy ma ones randomly close an hour early at least stay open the posted hours its not hard
I live right down the street. One person staff during those night hours
PS For the money saved by shopping at Market Basket (better quality, selection) you can pay to have someone do ur shopping lol
Stoppie pays rent in commercial- keeps it empty or sublets to anyone except a grocery store-
Ahold owns Stop and Shop, Giant, and Hanaford
The Stop and Shop at South Bay has good produce.
Where I used to live, the MB in the town next to mine (border state) was repacking older hamburger, mixed inside newer hamburger.
How do I know?
Because hamburger browns (ages) from the outside, in
.. not from the inside, out.
🤔
People should be watchful for this with any supermarket.
They all do that S and S too
BUT our local S&S serves only to keep prices down at Market Baskets who have great products as well as the ones with M/B name on it (locations near me) and best "international food" section. Aldi (multinational) is scary. Their products r heavily salted (cheap preservative) for shelf-life, so must sit on container ships and is same as Dollar store quality. Aft learning from employees of S&S that its actually policy to ignore out-of-date items and moldy produce i buy very lil in a pinch bc i'm allergic to mold. Tho now S&S is offering an easy solution to bad food yet the inconvenience isn't worth it. A S&S store near me never at anytime has more than few customers and many wearing a scowl on their face while employees are grumpy too.
I love Trader Joe's and think they have great prices
Market basket is king, as far as I am concerned. There is a stop and shop, down the street from where I work in Beverly, and I only go there in a pinch. Yes, their prices are ridiculous. I live in Southern NH, and I shop both Market baskets in Seabrook, and Exeter. I love the smaller MB, by the old vacant Ames. I am disappointed that there are way too many Spanish only speakers in the super size Seabrook store. That's not a good thing. The employees need to speak the native language where they live, which remains ENGLISH. "Tolerance" is way beyond tiresome in 2024-25! Market basket prices have gone up as well, though I don't think the store ever tries to gouge it's patrons. Want a good full size large pizza for normal prices? Order them through the fresh meals, deli area in the super size MB in Seabrook! Great pizza, great price! I am in my 60's, and have been a Market basket customer first, most of my life. There are Hannafords near me , closer than Market basket, and I will pop in there for convenience. Prices there are also slightly higher, but not terrible.
How is Stop and Shop still in business? Market Baskets are packed, in the extremely rare occasions where ive gone into a Stop and Shop they are ghost towns. I do my shopping for commodity goods at Market Basket. For higher quality, at higher prices, there is Whole Foods and especially Wegmans. I don't see where Stop and Shop, ir Shaws, fits in. Market Basket is locally owned, Stop and Shop and Shaws are owned by giant chains that aren't focused on the New England market
The use of shell companies and LLC's to buy property is nothing new. Market Basket, which is where I prefer to shop, owns a lot of the plazas that they are in. It's just a smart business practice to have a separate real estate company own the property, and then your supermarket pays your real estate company rent, and now that is a business expense that can be written off even though the money is never actually changing hands in reality.