Stop & Shop
Opened: ca. 2005
It's time for another Long Island supermarket brought to us by Alex, who lives near this Stop & Shop that's set to close along with the other 32 stores. (Alex also recently brought us coverage of the Wegmans in Lake Grove and the Food Bazaar in Hempstead.) This supermarket was built around 2005 on the site of a former Pathmark that was demolished, and which dated to around 1970. It's around 65,000 square feet and hasn't been renovated since it opened.
Since I haven't actually been to this store, I'm not 100% certain about all the details. But it looks like the grand aisle is on the left side of the store, with the produce department on the right side, and bakery and deli taking up the left-side wall of the store. Seafood and cheese are at the back of the grand aisle, and meat, beer, and dairy are on the rest of the back wall. HABA and dairy/frozen are on the right side. Pharmacy and floral are in the front-right corner.
It looks like a really nice store, and it's a shame it hasn't gotten the investments it needs over the last 20 years or so. We can tell it's aging but it's in rather good shape. There are much older, more rundown Stop & Shops that are still in business.
Alex took these pictures back in July, right after the closures were announced. For that reason, you won't really see any signs that the store is set to close.
Looks like the service seafood department is long gone from this store, assuming it originally had one.
The decor is beautifully preserved and in great shape here, though. Compare this to Raynham, which looks really bad.
This meat department is still looking fantastic, for instance, albeit a bit dated.
Food Bazaar will be acquiring this store and it appears they may be planning to open the day after Stop & Shop closes, on November 1. Some behind-the-scenes things: per public records, a company called Bogopa Coram Inc. was incorporated on August 9, 2024, the same day that Bogopa Carlstadt Inc. was incorporated a state over in New Jersey. Bogopa, of course, is the name of Food Bazaar's parent company, and the Carlstadt company was formed to acquire the Stop & Shop in Carlstadt. Similar entities were also set up over the summer, but on different dates, for stores in Hempstead (Bogopa Hempstead Inc.), Piscataway (Bogopa Piscataway Inc.) and Coney Island (Bogopa Cropsey Inc.). Food Bazaar was also originally slated to acquire a Stop & Shop in Mount Vernon, NY, but those plans appear to have been canceled.
I'm not completely sure why this store wasn't part of the original group of acquisitions -- Coney Island, Hempstead, Carlstadt, and Piscataway. Regardless, Food Bazaar is now hiring for this store and this past Friday and Saturday held a job fair at this location (while Stop & Shop is still open, to be clear; there's another job fair scheduled for next weekend). This means that, of the 32 closing Stop & Shop stores, seven are confirmed to have new tenants: the five Food Bazaar locations including this one, Uncle Giuseppe's in Greenvale on Long Island, and an Inserra Supermarkets-owned Fresh Grocer in Ringwood.
Here's a look at dairy in the back-right corner of the store.
Check out those aisle markers, beautifully preserved since day 1!
ALDI, LIDL, and ShopRite are a couple miles west on Middle Country Road from this store in Selden, and a non-Supercenter Walmart, an independent called Sunny Farms, and a King Kullen are about as far east in Middle Island. CTown, Fine Fare, and another Stop & Shop are to the south in Farmingville, and an Uncle Giuseppe's, Giunta's Meat Farms, ShopRite, and Ideal Food Basket are north in Port Jefferson and Port Jefferson Station. But this is the only supermarket within Coram itself.
It seems like the store, like Cooley Street, has been maintained well but also isn't that old.
Here's a look at floral and pharmacy in the front-right corner.
The front-end, complete with its original Trust & Satisfaction signage...
...and a look at the foyer, this one on the right side of the store. Like most Stop & Shops of this era, there were two entrances and two exits, one on each side of the store.
Opened: ca. 2005
Owner: Ahold Delhaize
Previous Tenants: none; Pathmark previously on property
Cooperative: none
Location: 294 Middle Country Rd, Coram, NY
Photographed: July 18, 2024
Contributor: Alex K.
Closing Date: October 31, 2024
And there's more to see today! Here's the list:
- Stop & Shop (closing) - Raynham, MA
- Stop & Shop (closing) - Sixteen Acres, Springfield, MA
- Wegmans (coming soon) - Lake Grove, NY
- Grocery Archaeology: Northeastern Worcester
- Food Bazaar Supermarket - Coney Island, Brooklyn
- Food Bazaar Supermarket - Hempstead, NY
- Food Bazaar Supermarket - Piscataway, NJ
- Stop & Shop (closing) - Coram, NY (this post)
- Stop & Shop (closing) - East Meadow, NY
- Tropical Supermarket - South Plainfield, NJ
Seems strange they updated the exterior signage since the store must have been on thin ice for a while now. All S&S's I've been in with the new exterior signage have had remodels as well.
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