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Stop & Shop eyes over 1,000 new hires in metro New York

Part-time positions include in-store and e-commerce jobs, with most of the openings on Long Island

Russell Redman

June 1, 2021

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About 700 of the Stop & Shop job openings are on Long Island, including 200 workers to support delivery operations at e-commerce 'warerooms.'Stop & Shop

Stop & Shop aims to fill more than 1,000 part-time jobs across the metropolitan New York area.

The Ahold Delhaize USA supermarket chain said Tuesday that the permanent, part-time positions include in-store roles in New York City, New York’s Long Island and New Jersey plus e-commerce roles on Long Island.

Store positions include jobs in the bakery, deli, grocery, produce, seafood and meat departments and openings for cashiers, porters, baggers and the night crew, Quincy, Mass.-based Stop & Shop said. The Long Island e-commerce jobs include personal shoppers to pick online orders and delivery drivers (ages 21 and older).

More than 500 of the job openings are on Long Island, including over 350 in Suffolk County and 150 in Nassau County. In addition, Stop & Shop said it plans to hire 200 workers to support its delivery operations across six Long Island e-commerce “warerooms,” located in East Northport, Medford, South Setauket, Riverhead, Farmingdale and Hempstead.

Meanwhile, the other metro-area store positions include more than 150 jobs across New York City and nearly 250 in New Jersey. Bronx, N.Y.-based online grocer FreshDirect, acquired by Ahold Delhaize USA earlier this year, isn’t part of the hiring drive.

Stop & Shop said the part-time jobs provide 12 to 28 hours of work each week plus competitive pay, paid training, flexible schedules, a company discount, paid time off and career advancement opportunities. The retailer added that it fills 80% of its open positions by promoting from within.

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“We invite all who enjoy working in a fast-paced, rewarding and fun environment to apply,” Michelle Castellana, human resources director for Stop & Shop stores in New York City, New Jersey and Long Island, said in a statement. “Our stores are places where all associates feel they belong. Stop & Shop associates have a sense of pride in coming together to care for and make a difference for our customers, our associates and each other.”

Stop & Shop operates 137 supermarkets in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey among its more than 400 stores in five states, including Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island as well as New York and New Jersey.

Long Island is seen as a key growth market for Stop & Shop. As part of a chainwide, five-year store upgrade program, the retailer has refreshed more than two-thirds of its 50-plus Long Island locations since starting remodels in the region in 2019. The upgrades bring a modernized look and a new logo and reflect a more customer-centric strategy based on convenience, namely a wider array of fresh, fast, healthy and local food options, as well as enhanced e-commerce services. In fiscal 2020, ended Jan. 3, Stop & Shop completed 33 remodels across its market area.

Related:Stop & Shop to hire 5,000 new workers across Northeast

“The Stop & Shop remodeled stores continue to provide a sales uplift, and we expect to accelerate the number of remodels in 2021 to approximately 60 stores,” Ahold Delhaize President and CEO Frans Muller said in a conference call last month on fiscal 2021 first-quarter results.

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Russell Redman

Senior Editor
Supermarket News

Russell Redman has served as senior editor at Supermarket News since April 2018, his second tour with the publication. In his current role, he handles daily news coverage for the SN website and contributes news and features for the print magazine, as well as participates in special projects, podcasts and webinars and attends industry events. Russ joined SN from Racher Press Inc.’s Chain Drug Review and Mass Market Retailers magazines, where he served as desk/online editor for more than nine years, covering the food/drug/mass retail sector. 

Russell Redman’s more than 30 years of experience in journalism span a range of editorial manager, editor, reporter/writer and digital roles at a variety of publications and websites covering a breadth of industries, including retailing, pharmacy/health care, IT, digital home, financial technology, financial services, real estate/commercial property, pro audio/video and film. He started his career in 1989 as a local news reporter and editor, covering community news and politics in Long Island, N.Y. His background also includes an earlier stint at Supermarket News as center store editor and then financial editor in the mid-1990s. Russ holds a B.A. in journalism (minor in political science) from Hofstra University, where he also earned a certificate in digital/social media marketing in November 2016.

Russell Redman’s experience:

Supermarket News - Informa
Senior Editor 
April 2018 - present

Chain Drug Review/Mass Market Retailers - Racher Press
Desk/Online Editor 
Sept. 2008 - March 2018

CRN magazine - CMP Media
Managing Editor
May 2000 - June 2007

Bank Systems & Technology - Miller Freeman
Executive Editor/Managing Editor
Dec. 1996 - May 2000

Supermarket News - Fairchild Publications
Financial Editor/Associate Editor
April 1995 - Dec. 1996 

Shopping Centers Today Magazine - ICSC 
Desk Editor/Assistant Editor
Dec. 1992 - April 1995

Testa Communications
Assistant Editor/Contributing Editor (Music & Sound Retailer, Post, Producer, Sound & Communications and DJ Times magazines)
Jan. 1991 - Dec. 1992 

American Banker/Bond Buyer
Copy Editor
Oct. 1990 - Jan. 1991 

This Week newspaper - Chanry Communications
Reporter/Editor
May 1989 - July 1990

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