Stop & Shop

This review is low primarily due to my interaction with the manager.
This afternoon I was at a self checkout register with three bottles of juice and three corresponding coupons I’d printed online for those items. After the machine accepted the first coupon, I ran into issues with the machine accepting the others.
The employee who tried to help me got the manager, who came over to scold me for «making copies of a coupon.» He refused to listen to my explanation that I had printed all three directly from the manufacturer’s website and kept insisting copies of coupons can’t be made but that he would make an exception this one time.
I use coupons printed from the Internet almost every time I do any grocery shopping, and I’ve never been told that my coupons were invalid. The way he jumped to conclusions to question my integrity and his refusal to listen to my explanation as a customer made me shocked that Stop & Shop would employ someone like him as a manager.

An operation like this is just too easy to talk bad about because a big store has a lot of employees, vendors, products and endless ways for something to go wrong. This place is nearby to my home and I love the pharmacy inside. The food products are average with a notable lack of a prepared food court. They have some packaged food, and cooked chicken but that’s about all. Bakery is very good, meat below average quality. Produce you have to catch it on a good day, usually Monday or Tuesday. The store is generally very clean and the workers pleasant. I can’t imagine myself being able to do it better.

I rewrote my review and added two stars, as it seems they’ve vastly improved stocking. I haven’t experienced the unavailability of ingredients lately, and even found items I previously had to shop for elsewhere. Great job!

We usually stay local for our grocery shopping –mostly patronizing the Simsbury Stop & Shop and occasionally the Shop Rite in Canton or the Big Y in Avon. But last night we ran some errands in Windsor and decided to shop at the Windsor Stop & Shop off the Kennedy Rd exit on I-​91.
In many respects, it’s an identical twin to the Stop & Shop in Simsbury — produce to the left, meats in the back, dairy and eggs in the right rear corner, frozen stuff on the right, and bakery at the right front. It had the marked down produce rack we love to scour, but this one was really hard to find, hidden behind a small wall by the deli counter.
We’re making Beer Can Chicken on the grill tonight, and we bought a nice whole chicken at a good price, plus some corn and zucchinis.
I have to put in a plug for a fabulous frozen treat we have seen at both Stop and Shops (not sure who else sells them). There is a line of frozen milk & fruit bars made by Fruttare that are absolutely amazing. Lots of flavors, but I defy you to chow on a better tasting 120 calorie dessert than their Banana and Milk bar. I posted a pic.
The store was neat, well stocked, and had some nice people up front. I’d go here any time.

Not an amazing store, but probably the best in Windsor.
All the departments are in better shape than Price Chopper’s even if a little smaller, though they’re all bigger than Geissler’s. .
They have a bank in house, along with a pharmacy.
They have lots of non-​edibles if you need cheese cloth or stuff like that and a small section of foreign foods.
This is also the only store with self checkouts in town, which means you could theoretically be in and out faster. A few tips: If the scanner isn’t reading your code, you can enter in the numbers under the bar code (start with the first small number off to the left side and leave out the last small one all the way over on the right). You can also enter the little codes on the stickers of any produce you have if you don’t want to spend a lot of time scrolling through the menus.