Stop & Shop

This is my favorite Stop & Shop in Queens, modern with the huge selection of items. You can’t beat this chain when it comes to sale prices and the meat and produce selection has always been fresh and well priced. Organic items tend to be a bit expensive though, so unless you’re a tree hugger you probably don’t need to spend the extra money! Generally friendly staff except for the occasional malcontent in the deli department. I only have one gripe, if you purchase lobster rolls from the seafood department, sometimes you get a lot of lobster and other times you get hardly any; it really depends on who is making the lobster roll

They desperately need a better organic produce section. Also, they should have all organic produce separated out and not mixed in with non organic produce. Please, please make a great organic produce section!!!

I love this supermarket. Clean, well organized, parking, amazing sales (solid white tuna — $ 1/​can; a whole watermelon for $ 2.99), great bakery (tuscan boule — i could eat the entire loaf plain; the mini cream pies with real whipped cream are sooo worth the calories, as well as the red velvet muffins); they usually have a cart full of reduced price fruits and veggies, which are super cheap and perfectly fine. They have a fish and seafood section with fresh products at good prices, and there’s always a good sale. I have salmon from there about once/​wk. If you want stuff from the deli you can enter your order on a computer terminal and the PA system will announce your number when your order is ready. It could not be easier.
You need a car to get there, but if you have a car or can borrow one, make the trip and do a big shop. This store is far and away the best supermarket — for price, selection, cleanliness, convenience, organization, customer service — that I’ve ever been in in NYC. And that includes other Stop n Shops.

The worst store ever. Nasty, rude and unprofessional workers — mgmt just stands there and does nothing. Pathetic.

This is definitely the top supermarket of choice when it comes to any other supermarket near me. Its huge, clean, nice, not a lot of bums lingering around (even though there are bottle machines), lots of sales, easilu sectioned aisles… etc. The staff (and even the customers) are very friendly and the over all vibe is great. I love shopping here.
The only drawbacks are that the parking lot layout really sucks (whoever engineered that layout is an absolute idiot as an architect, in my opinion. So, yeah, thats not the stores fault), so on a busy day, like a holiday, forget about it, It’s chaos. And another drawback is that sometimes on slow weeknights, they don’t take as much care replacing shopping carts downstairs wherw the store entrance is. So you’ll get there, and there will be no carts. So you’ll have to walk back up, or take the elevator, back up to the the parking lot and then walk around in hopes of finding one left sonewhere. It’s really annoying, especially in cold weather…
Other than those things… the store itself is amazing. The staff is amazing…

New self checkout registers are horrible there is no time savings at all. It used to be a pleasure to shop here.

Dear stop and shop. I love your sales and the cashier folks r super nice.but.ll Your store is freezing all year round. like Alaska cold. Turn the air down. take the money you saved and hire more deli people. Waiting over a half an hour for some ham no matter what time u go. sucks!

Good Super Market. produce is nice and fresh… they have a really good heathy aisle with vegan choices if you are into that. Pretty clean and nice staff… the only thing that is a problem is you need to check the expiration dates on meat and dairy… sometimes they cut it close… bottom level parking level can be a nightmare… also the elevator sometimes are broken

Definitely like this location, but further than other Stop/​Shops, so only come here on occasion.
For one thing — they have a Starbucks! Hot day buying groceries, this would be a convenient and tasty treat.
Elevators to go up and down to the parking, I assume. A bit of a winding walk to the lot otherwise. I walked up the ramp and pushing my groceries, not gonna lie, got a little winded there.
It’s smaller than Grand Avenue one, and don’t have as big a stock, as in less of each product. They have everything, just much smaller quantity.
Some produce is fresher (organic cauliflower), some is not as fresh (organic apples and lacking the variety), couldn’t find regular mangoes and the mangoes that were there had a lot of brown spots on the skin. Their health section was pretty good, but they didn’t have smooth organic peanut butter, just the crunchy, and that’s what I was looking for.
A fairly large alcohol section, or maybe it was mixed with other items.
Plenty of self-​checkout lanes and the fact that they had about 4 (or more?) of «less than 12 items» self-​checkout was appreciated. The one on Grand Avenue, it sucks waiting behind someone who has literally 88 items and they take about two hours because self-​checkout usually has more issues or they get significantly more confused without someone to talk them through everything. Then they also have regular self checkout lanes (2 – 3), one was out of order though. An attendant was there, and stayed there. I hate when the attendant wanders off and you have to chase someone down when there is a problem.
Smaller store, aisles not as wide, produce section not as large, although the bakery looked pretty damn good. General space between aisles and the register lines is smaller, so if lines start to form, there is no way you are going to be able to pass.
Parking is in a garage/​deck, shared with other businesses. I like this because on super hot days you have shade and your car isn’t a sauna by the time you come back to it.
***Stop and Shop in general is not the cheapest chain, so be aware of this before you shop. Go to their website and look at the online ad.

I loved the Stop and Shop in my old neighborhood, but this one is really a disappointment. Long lines. Generally poor customer service (an exception being the deli counter, but even there, it’s a long wait). Never any shopping carts at the entrance of the store so you have to go back out to the parking lot and get one for yourself. Ask for help with anything and you’ll get a lot of attitude and general unpleasantness, and this includes people who appear to be supervisors. They also need to work on the self-​check out machines. What’s the point of self-​check out if the machine isn’t working properly, and you have to call over the assistant five or six times? If the scanner isn’t working, please close the lane and save your customers some frustration and time. I had to ask the assistant over seven times (no exaggeration) to reset the machine.

Great food products fresh veggies and meats. The prices are high and the worst part is every time I come it 2 folks in the register… come on… thank good for self-​service.

Very friendly employees, great bakery that takes pride in what they do, and the store employs people from all capabilities. Store is clean, well-​stocked, and the prices are very reasonable. Glad to have an outstanding grocery store in Queens.

Good supermarket. I can find a lot of things cheaper at Key Food though. Gets crowded during peak hours. Tons of parking. The bakery staff is very nice.
I like to get the gross half priced sushi late at night. I don’t know why though…
Pro tip: the check out machines give up to $ 200 cash back. My bank isn’t nearby so I buy a pack of gum and get cash back from Stop n Shop. You can do it over and over if you need a lot of cash and don’t mind a wallet full of twenties.

A bit far from where I am but the food is nice and fresh. I love their cakes. Best of all it’s so hard to find «cake boss» cakes. Bad thing is they only carry 2 cake boss’s cakes. So get there early to get one.
The prices there are so so. Depending on what your getting.

Not being a fan of the super mega Marts of any product, minus a great wine shop, I’m split on how my shopping experience translates into a fair grade for double S.
There’s no way I can dismiss the cleanliness, variety, convenience, hours of operation and sales specials.
That being said, produce of the non-​organic persuasion is oddly unique in comparison to produce in single store operations like those in Middle Village to cite a quick example. Vegetables and fruit alike look picturesque sitting in their display bins, but once at home sitting on my cutting board, all my hopes of flavor bursting from inside the peel become dashed with one single downward stroke of my knife’s blade. It’s as if some of the produce was cross breed with cotton, I occasionally catch myself observing the object of my lunches intentions quizzically, wondering what’s lurking beneath the outer casing, probably more than I should.
Meat has spiked recently in price across the board regarding most every meat type, but lately supermarket meat is a tremendous disappointment and my concerns grow with every passing day. This feeling leads me to return to my local butcher shop for my carnivore needs, much like my Middle Village example speaks to. Yes he’s a bit pricey and has the occasional finger on the scale, even though he lives on my block, but I feel better in the long run, there’s shopping through consumption piece of mind.

Seriously?! How did I never know this place. Gots everything I need! Organic items, wide selection and quality meats and veggies.

Love this place! Not because I live a few minutes away, but there’s always parking, free parking and it’s a pretty big, organized place! They’re are super friendly and helpful as well… I’m in there like twice a week. Their prices are great too! I use the stop n shop discount card and also in conjuction with the Shell gas points. Last weem I saved 1.20 off premium gas!
Great grocery store, especially for Queens.

we’ve started coming here for food shopping as suffering through LIE traffic on summer Sundays is a pain (and thus minimizing our trips to the Bayside Waldbaums). overall, I’m a fan.
it’s huge and clean, with double-​wide aisles big enough to make U-​turns in. prices are reasonable with plenty of store-​brand options in almost every aisle. great selections in meats, and an absurd amount of cheese.
there’s even a dedicated aisle for allergen-​free, soy-​free, gluten-​free, organic, lactose-​free, blah blah blah health buzzwords of the week.
there’s a Starbucks here too? yes, indeed.
when they’re working — sometimes the system is down — there’s the price scanners which you use to scan your items as you place them in the cart, then simply check out and bag at the end. I haven’t tried, as both times they’ve been down at this S&S, but I’ve tried it at other locations and it can save a little time.
the dead end lane when you drive here coming from Union Turnpike (westbound) always gets me. don’t take that immediate right, but go just beyond it.
plenty of parking, and with the vast majority of it inside that’s a bonus during inclement weather. in contrast, in Bayside there’s only a few spots in a building that you still need to exit to go shopping. parking is free, thankfully.

Edam cheese, poffertjes and bitterballen are some of my favorite Dutch foods. Peter Stuyvesant, of Dutch origin, is no stranger to these parts. Add Stop & Shop to the mix and you’re ready to truly go Dutch.
What? There’s a connection between this Northeast USA supermarket chain and Holland? Indeed, Stop and Shop has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dutch company Ahold since 1995.
Alas, you won’t find Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet here but you will find in all likelihood the largest, cleanest and most well stocked supermarket in the immediate Forest Hills/​Glendale area. It’s a space that is truly worthy of the word supermarket, unlike the pretenders on Queens Boulevard.
My only criticism to date is the unorthodox and somewhat confusing point of entry. Last summer I tried coming here and simply gave up because I had no idea where the actual entry is to Stop and Shop. Sure, you’ll drive into the parking garage area, maybe even go up a level or two. My summer expedition was thwarted by impatience but on a recent day off I returned.
And suffered from the same confusion. I finally parked, walked around by Pizza Classico and some other shops before breaking down and asking for directions. «Excuse me, where’s the stop and shop?» The white-​haired woman motioned to the opposite side of the grounds and I thanked her.
Walking to the other side, I was still stymied. I didn’t see any sliding doors or clearly marked entries. At long last I saw a grocery carriage emerge and climb up a ramp. A-​ha! So that’s how you enter…
Or take an elevator. I guess the space constraints of this shopping center made for the creative entry way. Either way, you can walk down a handicapped accessible ramp or take an elevator and be brought to a gem of a store.
Even on a Monday afternoon the place was crowded, however so be warned. As the only real supermarket in the immediate area, the aisles can be packed. A standard layout of produce, butcher shop, fish monger and more make up the store.
If I wasn’t a regular (and sometimes Unilocal duke) of the Waldbaum’s in Bay Terrace I’d likely be more of a regular here. And it’s through no fault of the store’s interior but rather the exterior. It’s not the easiest parking complex to navigate through, feels rather cramped and can easily descend into beeping barbarism. If you want to stay in the hood this is the best of the supermarkets; if you don’t mind traveling further east you can have an easier time of the chore of grocery shopping.

I wrote a review on there Westbury location, but wanted to review this one separately because this is my local, «go to» supermarket.
Its in a complex, they have pizza, (pizza place is delish, check out my review for pizza classica), liquor, ac moore, chase, petland and a fashion bug. Nice size complex, gets busy but worse case scenario you have to park on the 2^nd floor, which is not the worst thing in the world since there’s an elevator up there. Parking garage no charge. Plenty of shopping carts, inside and outside. Entrance to supermarket is like on the underground level, so they have a ramp or an elevator to get you down there. Place is a nice size. They recently did some restructuring of the departments and where the items where located. ALL of us where walking around pretty confused, but I’m sure it was for good reason.
customer service is good. they are helpful. they have the deli kiosk where you punch in your order, get a # and go shopping while they get your order ready… LOVE THAT!
Meat selection is good, they have a wonderful cheese dept with every cheese you could think of, I really like this about stop and shop. Well stocked produce department.
Bakery could be better, it kind of small and by the time I get there things are finished (or maybe they just don’t ever have them, like the rainbow cookies and the cheese bagels) that’s a little annoying. I will say that when I do get bread, muffins or cookies… they are always fresh! Bakery also has a section of «day old» baked goods that are reduced, its by the registers. I’ve found really good focaccia and garlic bread from here and its normally good for a few more days, I have even froze it and then popped it in the oven… works really well, got that tip from the food network!
What I don’t like is the self check out! Its really a pain in the rear end! Its weird, there’s no belt, there’s a bag holder and they want you to put your item directly in the bag once you scan it, so they can weight it type thing. This causes a bit of a problem, you can only put so many things in one bag and when you move the bag the register get kind of confused. there is an employee running around helping everyone, but this cause it to take longer, and the employee is annoyed most of the time. At the other location we go to, they have a belt which make it so much fast, scan, throw it on the belt, and you can just keep zipping the items down the belt.
wish they would work on the self check out area, as the lines are generally really long.