Stop and Shop

This is one of the 3 groceries I usually frequent… It has nearly as much veriety as the HUGE S&S in Bedford. I go there only by urgent nesessity.
I’m not kosher, but in Bedford, I was APALLED to see the serving spoon for tuna salad at the deli, put into the tuna with ham salad still on it, getting mixed with the tuna… I’m not even Jewish, or Muslim, but I do have friends who are kosher, and Lord! Are deli workers not taught this? DELI WORKERS?!
Both Stop & Shops have the very annoying habit of moving around the merchandise often, which ends up in spending extra time locating items, but I imagine that’s not a local decision.
Both also tend to run out of breads… especially ARNOLD and Nissan Canadian Brown. there are plenty of whole grain breads always… which I figure is that market research is tipped by what people want to be seen as something they kinda wish they were or think they ought to be, as opposed to what they really want.
BUT, the deli, the produce section, and most importantly, (aside from the horrid ham issue), the customer service in Acton is GREAT!
There are items I wish S&S carried that they don’t…and when I’ve asked friends, I’m clearly not the only one who wishes they did… wish I could ask them to give these things a trial run. If anyone knows how, please post it! These are sometimes things that became un-trendy…things of my Mum’s generation… just one example: younger people are becoming tired of having Sara Lee’s carrot cake being the only option for Sara Lee sheet cake. They still make chocolate, orange, banana… maybe others, but carrot cake seems more healthy (though I doubt it is). I DO like healthy food! Organic, GMO free, PBA free, local… and seek it out, but I don’t want to have only that choice.
There are also many laundry and cleaning products that are up to a century old, that are simple, non toxic, INEXPENSIVE and useful, that most people have never heard of. At the same time, the new precious «natural» products are there prominently — I understand it’s that they pay for the position, but please, we are not all wealthy.
Nature’s Miricle is an enzyme cleaner known to farmers, and though it can sometimes be found in small bottles in the grocery, it is life-​saving if someone has puked all over the nursury school, or your car interior… it literally transforms puke into semi hard, ok smelling little bits that can be swept away with a whisk broom. I donated gallons to my kids’ nursury school, and carry it with me in the car. It also addresses all biological waste that can be deposited in unfortunate places. I’m pretty sure you could ingest it and wouldn’t come to much harm. You can wipe stuff off an animal in it… though it’s not a stated use. You can find it at S&S…little bottle… big ones at pet and farm supply.
Over all, Acton Stop&Shop has great customer service, the deli is always clean, they have gone out of their way to accomodate me in many ways over the yesrs that I’e gone there. A hats off to Dianna at the Deli!
And many others, one’s who’ve offerred to help me out with 2 loaded carts, in the winter’s worst weather, (and I mean WORST! THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!). People who spent their time looking for an obscure item… reached fot the stuff on the high shelf and many other helpful actions. Thank you too! I do have a grudge regarding those impossibly high shelves… I’m 5’2″, and no amount of jumping can get me to the high shelf… and if you wonder about that woman crazily jumping for the inexpensive food containers… it’s likely me. When it’s glass jars… watch out! Thankfully, in this store, someone often offers to help.
All in all 4 stars…5 if the switching around of product placement weren’t so frequent and the high shelves were’nt so high…
5+ if I could get Sara Lee Banana Sheet Cake ;^)

Terrible customer service. Cashier left register to go on break without telling us and it took 5 minutes for someone to come and ring us up. I could not believe how rude this woman was. She made it very obvious that she was not happy about having to be at the register. Then as I pay, she leaves again without saying anything to go help another cashier and the cashier who bagged was very nice to jump in and give me my receipt. I just could not believe how rude the original cashier and this woman were.

Produce department suck here. Go to another branch if you are looking for some quality. No meat in the meat section, only family size chicken trays.

I agree with the other postings… it’s not the best Stop & Shop by any means. It is what it is. I go there for basics, but not veggies or fruit by any means. It’s a last resort, «milk, bread, cheese and a stick of butter»… I never see a ‘manager’ anywhere, so my guess is it is run by the teens working there…

Having given it several chances, not my favorite grocery store around. Could use some tidying and seems overly dominated by prepared foods. Could not find most of what I was looking for on the last visit and ended up having to go to another store to complete my grocery list.

Most certainly the worst produce department I have ever en encountered. Moldy cherry tomatoes, brown salad mix, and most recently moldy veggie meatballs… not sure if it’s them trying to stretch their inventory, or lack of proper department management but it’s bad. One suggestion I have is: stop spending money on needless gimmicks like portable price scanners and invest in your quality control. Luckily there are 2 other grocers near me and I only need to come here infrequently.

I am leery of Stop and Shop. The outlet closest to me, in Chelmsford Center, is simply gross. We happened to be in Concord and needed to do grocery shopping. We also had our new GPS unit and wanted to see where it took us for groceries. We could have selected Trader Joe’s but didn’t think they would have everythin we were looking for. I was suspect when Stop and Shop appeared as an alternative, but we decided to go.
Yes, the store is older and smaller than the super stores, but it was clean and well stocked. The produce section, the weakest part of the Chelmsford store, was well stocked, too. We found everything we needed fairly quickly and the checker was friendly to boot. Perhaps the Chelmsford store is an aberration… we shall see.

I’m one of those folks who flips through Thursday Flyers, and checks out the sales from local supermarkets. Last week, they had some decent sales at Stop and Shop, so I went there.
Now I will preface by saying this particular Stop and Shop is rather old and small, by today’s standards. They’ve tried to add some modern conveniences to it.
However, if you think I’m buying sushi from here, you are high!
I got a bunch of staples, and a perfectly lovely sirloin, that I pan fried with a beer demiglace last night. I was quite happy with that. It cut like buttah! The produce section is pretty bare bones. I did pick up some yams which were eaten with green beans, and homemade French Bread (yeah, I made it), and the sirloin.
I was lured into buying their bulk coffee by the $ 6/​lb sign. Never again. I think it’s called Javana. I sincerely doubt there’s even coffee beans in there. It tasted more like ground up, and toasted, moldy socks. I’ve gotten better coffee from vending machines. Yuck!
That negated a point off the review, right there.