Stop & Shop Opened: 2010 Previous Tenants: Shaw's (2003-2010) Location: 125 CT-39, New Fairfield, CT Photographed: July 9, 2021 On Friday we saw the New Fairfield Food Center , a small independent supermarket just diagonally across the street from this Stop & Shop. Although the Food Center has been there since 1969, this store was constructed in 2003 by Shaw's, which ran the store until 2010 when it was sold to Stop & Shop. As we'll see, there's still a fair amount of Shaw's left around the store, even though Stop & Shop has renovated it -- minimally. We have a very standard Shaw's layout, in which we enter the 60,000 square foot store in the front left corner to produce and then prepared foods and deli in the back left corner of the store. Service seafood is at the back of the grand aisle, with meat on the rest of the back wall. The first aisle has a natural foods department. Frozen and dairy are on the right side of the store, with bakery a
We're back with another round of Stop & Shop updates. I first posed the question of "what's up with Stop & Shop" at the beginning of the month with a special report looking at stores in West Caldwell, Franklin Lakes, Wyckoff, Lyndhurst, Carlstadt, Hackensack, Dumont, South Orange, Union, Bayonne, Staten Island, Keyport, Aberdeen, and Berkeley Heights. Now it's time to check out a few other stores I've been to more recently -- and things are decidedly not good. I don't have any substantive updates since the last post I made, which I linked above, but I have visited several more stores and not only have the stock and maintenance problems continued -- they have notably gotten worse. Still, again, there's a range of store conditions, and store ages. Let's see what's going on. Closter, NJ We begin our tour of Stop & Shop in Closter, New Jersey, a small town in northeastern New Jersey. It's just about three miles inland from the Huds