Stop&Shop

Disappointed. I hoped this store would be better. I found it to be a Less than average Supermarket. Messy, not clean and the nastiest workers here. They get annoyed with customers in the produce dept. cashiers fighting with front end managers. No One Smiles. An overhaul of the staff here might help

I had such high hopes for our new Stop and Shop, but alas, I was wrong. Poorly stocked (3 common items I went looking for today were out of stock), rude or indifferent employees («do you have_​_​_​_​_​_​?» «No we’re out»). Did you check the back? Did you ask someone else to check the back? No and no. And this is not the first time Stop and Shop has been a disappointment. In comparing notes with my neighbors, we all sadly concur that the beautiful, well run local supermarket we all eagerly anticipated is a huge disappointment. Time to look elsewhere to spend my hard earned grocery money.

It’s bigger and cleaner than the previous store but the grocery section looks like they picked through a dumpster for the vegetables. I never saw so many limp old looking produce. The store is not well organized and limited. Parking lot is a nightmare. Your best bet is to park behind the store in the larger lot.
The upside is that they have sufficient cashiers so there are not long lines.

What a difference after the renovation! Before the renovation, this place looked like a run down ghetto-​style supermarket. But after the renovation and expansion, it is now a clean, modern store. It is very well stocked, plus it has a nice bakery and selection of natural foods. Walking in today you would have no idea what the store was like before. Prices are moderate, though not the lowest, but still a better deal than King Kullen. An ample amount of registers and checkouts, despite being busy I usually don’t have to wait too long on line. Definitely the best supermarket in the Bellmore-​Merrick area!

I very rarely comment about any product, service or store online. Today, I cannot resist. We waited what seems like years for the broken down little antiquated but convenient S&S to expand, renovate, and improve. Finally, the first two of those occurred. Unfortunately, improvement was not to be had. Although I like Stop & Shop stores in general, I have never been in a worse single store in my life than this one in Merrick. Selection is horrible. Sleepwalking shoppers (please let me by, please please). The nice deli staff is very friendly — I like them completely — but the check-​out folk are often cold, grim and rude. I’ll continue to shop at other Stop & Shop locations (the Freeport one is hugely superior to this «improved» Merrick store). I’m not making these comments based on just one unpleasant shopping experience. This has been a repeated gripe ever since the renovated store first opened. I’d said a couple months ago that I’d never go into this store again, but nonetheless went in today to quickly grab a very few small items because I was nearby. Foolish decision.

Much much better than the old dump that was there. I live right down the block so its nice to see it opened and really clean and well spaced out. The only thing that was lacking was the frozen food area much smaller than the Bellmore or East Meadow one i normally frequent oh well. I usually go after i get out of work at night and i walked in at 930 and they were closing at 10 which i also hate since the others are open till 12am Again whatever the place looked great the cashier was actually lovely AND i even ot my stuff bagged for me which never happens on Wrong Island. The produce dept. was great as well.

This supermarket went through a major renovation and re-​opened recently. It also acquired more footage from a business that closed next door to it. The new Stop & Shop is a hell of a lot bigger and a hell of a lot nicer then it’s predecessor.
P. S. No more funky smell!

For years they have not carried Arizona diet peach ice tea. And I always buy it else where. So I asked the manager if he could order it and start carrying this flavor and he said he would on the next truck it would come in, this was a Tuesday he told me to check back Friday. So I return Friday and I don’t see it on the shelf so I asked the manger who remembered me if the item I requested came in. He said it did and it was packed out. Of course the num skull only ordered 1 case of it so by the time I got their it was sold out. So I tell the manger why would you not order more then one case and always have it. It’s a popular item to baffling!!!

I would give this place a zero if Unilocal would let me. This is by far the worst supermarket I have ever been to. You would think it was situated in the slums of the most poor neighborhood in America. I lived in the ghetto in Albany and they had better supermarkets. There were 3 bananas left when I was there recently — all were green and black — I didn’t even know this combination was possible! Everything just looks like it is spoiled and I am actually terrified to eat any of the 4 items that I bought from here (shocked I even found that much stuff to purchase).

This is a terrible Supermarket, especially because it’s a Stop&Shop. I’ve been to a few other Stop&Shops and think they’re really nice. This once should be out of business. There are many issues with this place including:
* Extreme lack of selection. Hard to find a lot of stuff here you’d find in normal Supermarkets.
* Dirty. It looks like they haven’t cleaned here in years.
* The fruit looks like it was taken out of the garbage from another grocery store. None of the fruit is fresh. Twice, I’ve gone here to get one orange and couldn’t because they all appeared rotten.
* They have a guy who goes around putting shopping carts back. However, the last couple of times I went to find a shopping cart there were none. The place wasn’t packed and, aside from a few scattered in the lot, I have no idea where they could have been.
* There are a couple of nice cashiers, but most are rude and seem miserable there.
I go here still, on occasion, because it’s in walking distance, but I find it it to be worth the trip to King Kullen in Bellmore or Shoprite in Uniondale for a full shop because these places are better on so many levels.

I am spoiled by much nicer, newer Stop&Shops, that have self-​check outs and price Zappers (love those things!) so this might seem a bit biased. But this place is pitiable. It is like someone took a neighborhood grocery store and slapped the Stop&Shop logo over the original sign. The place is small, probably the smallest S&S I’ve ever been to, but that doesn’t bother me. What DOES bother me is the following: the place is filthy, the produce aisle is seriously lacking in produce and what produce IS there is scattered about or not restocked (think cherries next to artichokes… huh???), the check out aisles are too small and the staff is nonexistent. My biggest criticism however, is the fact that THERE ARE NO PRICES ON ANYTHING. I have to scour for prices and sometimes they just don’t exist at all. I have no idea what a pound of nectarines costs, but there are plenty of nectarines to be found, just no sign saying how much they are. Or how much 3lbs of ground turkey costs. I’d love to buy it, if it fit into my budget, but I can’t, because I don’t know if I’m being ripped off or not. This makes it so hard to shop for ANYTHING when you are trying to keep a grocery budget. I don’t even feel comfortable asking the minimal staff I can find — they are very unapproachable and seem like they hate working at S&S. I will definitely NOT be going back anytime soon. Not worth driving the extra ten minutes for this place!