Stewart’s Shops

If you’re from the area, then you know Stewart’s has the best ice cream. Crumbs Along the Mohawk and Happy Camper are my favorite, but really all the flavors kick ass. And their make your own sundae process is fun too.
Aside from the ice cream, each location is your basic quick stop for snacks and lotto. Their signature sodas are mighty tasty too — especially the Key Lime flavor!

Looking for a place to grab a loaf of bread, ice cream, gas, and a foot long sub? Where else but Stewart’s! This is a good location. One of the smaller stores, but what they lack in size they make for in ice cream. If you have been reading my reviews can you tell I love their ice cream?!
Anywho, at this Stewart’s on Upper Union street, you get that great service you come to expect from the company as a whole. The staff is pleasant to deal with which makes it nice when stopping there after a long day of work.
Oh, and if you don’t see that sub sandwich, or any sandwich for that matter, that you are looking for, just ask and they will make you a fresh one to your liking. Their subs are better than Home Style’s…no really they are. Home Style’s bread is a little bit better but that’s it. Next time I’m there I’ll make a suggestion they try a new bread variaty… maybe a baguette… is that asking too much?

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ice Cream. Remember their ‘Make Your Own Sundae”? Hey, Friendly’s came in late and left early. Stewart’s is still there anyone remember Mr. Bill O’Keefe manager of the unit where the CVS is now located.

This is a classic mini-Stewart’s with the basic layout, including three built in four-​seat booths at the front of the shop by the windows. It’s on a corner location and the gas business is fairly lively, so during peak times parking may be an issue. The staff here have been uniformly peppy and efficient about their service, so it’s a touch above average among the many, many identical Stewart’s in the area.
I don’t think Stewart’s has yet caught up to where convenience retailing is heading, and they’re trapped by the footprint of their stores in this regard to have to focus on a relatively few number of high volume items, a few more high margin items, and make their money on the fast convenience transaction and not the pick-​up-​a-​few-​things-​on-​the-​way business newer and bigger shops do a better job of. But Stewart’s does have the amazing virtue of being utterly reliable for what it is, right down to being able to find the same things in the same spots in multiple locations, so it still has a niche here. This only gets us in the door a few times a year, though, for the odd milk emergency.
If I were the marketing guy in charge of Stewart’s, I’d hire Patrick Stewart, paste his picture all over the tops of the stores, change the Stewart’s logo font to something like the Star Trek font, and use the slogan «MAKE IT SO!» I guarantee business would warp ahead.