About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. It was just another day at Stop & Shop when an elderly gentleman started checking out items from other shoppers’ baskets without them noticing. A regular, he’d been doing it for weeks—taking someone else’s apples or bananas and putting them in his own bag. Nobody seemed to mind until one morning, when a delivery driver caught him red-handed. The delivery driver cleared his throat and asked, ‘Excuse me, sir, but these apples belong to that lady over there.’ The old man looked sheepishly around, mumbled something about misplaced basket numbers, and quickly swapped back the fruit. From then on, everyone in Stop & Shop knew him as ‘Mr. Mixed-up,’ and whenever anyone saw him coming with their groceries, they’d laugh and say, ‘Oh no, here comes Mr. Mixed-up again!’
2. A little boy was pushing his shopping cart down the aisle, completely absorbed in something on his phone. Suddenly, he stopped dead in his tracks and exclaimed, ‘Mom, look! This banana is talking to me!’ His mom looked puzzled for a moment, then burst out laughing. She gently took away his phone and said, 'No, sweetie, it's just your imagination.' But as she picked up another banana, she whispered to her neighbor, 'Guess he's been watching too many of those fruit-talking videos again!'
3. While loading groceries into his car, a neighbor exclaimed, ‘This milk is colder than my morning coffee!’ Everyone laughed, but soon noticed that every gallon seemed ice-cold. As they drove home, another neighbor joked, ‘Maybe it’s time for an ice cream party?’ Soon enough, everyone was laughing and sharing their frozen finds—ice-cold milk, frozen bananas, even a fridge-worthy watermelon. It turned out to be just one of Stop & Shop’s quirky promotions, leaving everyone with a smile and a freezer full of surprises.
4. At dawn, when most supermarkets are still quiet, a delivery driver noticed something peculiar: every morning, a shadowy figure was rearranging the bananas in alphabetical order by variety. Curious, the driver followed the mysterious figure one day and discovered it was just an elderly gentleman who believed that alphabetized bananas brought good luck to everyone shopping there. From then on, customers started calling him ‘Banana Sensei,’ and Stop & Shop became known for its quirky charm.