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Stop & Shop launches hiring drive in metro New York

Ahold Delhaize USA chain bolsters stores in key growth market

Russell Redman

June 26, 2019

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Stop & Shop aims to fill about 1,250 part-time jobs in metropolitan New York, a market that the Ahold Delhaize USA chain has targeted for expansion amid intensifying competition.

Quincy, Mass.-based Stop & Shop said Wednesday that the positions include part-time opportunities in the bakery, deli, grocery, produce, seafood and meat departments, as well as openings for cashiers, porters, baggers and night crew.

By area, Stop & Shop is looking to fill 520 openings in New Jersey, 390 on Long Island and 340 in New York City. The grocery chain said it wants to add another seven or eight associates per store as part of initiatives to improve the shopping experience for customers and better serve the surrounding communities.

“I started in grocery more than 30 years ago as part-time cashier,” Bob Yager, senior vice president of sales and operations at Stop & Shop, said in a statement. “These aren’t just part-time jobs; they are the building blocks to a rewarding career with a company that values people and hard work.” 

Stop & Shop is Ahold Delhaize’s largest supermarket chain. The retailer last October kicked off a five-year plan to roll out a new look and shopping experience at its stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey. The brand repositioning, which began at 21 stores in the Hartford, Conn., area, includes a modernized store format and a new logo that reflect a more customer-centric strategy based on convenience, especially a wider selection of fresh, fast, healthy and local food options.

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Next in line for the upgrades are Stop & Shop stores on Long Island, with work getting under way this spring. Plans call for 60 to 80 stores to be remodeled annually under the project, with total capital spending estimated at $1.6 billion to $2 billion. Ahold Delhaize said the Stop & Shop brand refresh is expected to lift store sales 4% to 6% on a pro forma basis in the first year, 2% to 4% in the second and 2% in the third.

Also on Long Island, Stop & Shop in January announced a deal to acquire King Kullen Grocery Co., which operates 32 King Kullen stores and five Wild by Nature natural/organic supermarkets in Nassau and Suffolk counties. Those locations add to Stop & Shop's more than 50 Long Island stores.

On Long Island, Stop & Shop has operated in a crowded competitive field that includes Walmart, Target, Costco Wholesale, BJ’s Wholesale Club, ShopRite, Aldi, Whole Foods Market, Trader Joe’s, Key Food Stores and a host of independent and specialty grocers, such as Fairway Market and Uncle Giuseppe’s.

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Still, Stop & Shop remains the market leader in Long Island’s Nassau and Suffolk counties by a healthy margin, with a 25.6% share as of January 2019, according to data from Earnest Research. Only three other chains hold double-digit share: Costco (19.5%), Target (10.7%) and BJ’s (10.2%). King Kullen held a market share of 7.4% as of January.

New, formidable competitors, however, will soon be entering the metro area. This fall, Wegmans Food Markets plans to open its first metro New York supermarket in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard development. And early next year, hard-discount grocer Lidl is slated to open four stores on Long Island, including the first converted stores from its acquisition of 27 locations from Long Island-based community grocer Best Markets.

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About the Author

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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