Stop & Shop Unveils New Waterbury Store

Stop & Shop opened a brand-new store in Waterbury, Connecticut, to better serve all its customers’ needs. Located at 943 Wolcott Street, Stop & Shop’s new Waterbury store is over 70,000 square feet, refreshed in look, format, and amenities to make the shopping experience simpler and more enjoyable, and is just across the street from its 920 Wolcott Street store, which closed permanently on Thursday, January 11th.

Expansive Kosher Offerings to Meet the Needs of Growing Jewish Community:

Over the last 24 years the Orthodox Jewish population in Waterbury has increased by 350%. As a local grocery store, Stop & Shop prides itself on serving its community members with the items and products they are searching for, which is why the new Waterbury location will offer one of the largest Kosher selections of any Stop & Shop location.

Highlights of the Kosher selections in the Waterbury store include:

• One full aisle of Kosher products with over 1,000 items, including meat, fish, dairy, deli favorites, and grocery shelf stable items.
• Within the Kosher aisle are over 40 feet of shelf stable items, eight feet of dairy & cheeses, four feet of deli favorites, eight feet of fresh meat including beef, poultry and fish, and six doors of frozen products.
• The bakery department also offers Kosher products.
• Some of the popular Kosher brands that can be found at the Waterbury Stop & Shop are Empire Kosher Poultry, Meal Mart, True Tides Seafood, Old Williamsburg, Galil, Wacky Mac Mac & Cheese, Gefen, Yehuda, Pereg Natural Food & Spices, Joyva, Paskesz, Haddar, Streit’s, Klein’s, Dr. Praeger’s, Oberlanders, Kedem, Dr. Bown’s Sodas, and Manishewitz Wines.

“One of the basic necessities for the growth and survival of a Jewish Community and to ensure its continuity is the availability of Kosher food,” said Rabbi Yehuda Brecher, Principal of Yeshiva K'tana of Waterbury. “We are very thankful and grateful to Stop & Shop for their commitment to ensure that our community has access to Kosher food at all times and its continued service to the Jewish community with quality and excellence.”

“We are thrilled to celebrate Stop & Shop’s launch of its new location,” said City of Waterbury Mayor, Paul K. Pernerewski, Jr. “This area of the city is growing and thriving and having a neighborhood grocery store that is sensitive to the requirements of their customers is commendable. Stop & Shop’s commitment to offer a wide range of Kosher products and services, provides for the diverse needs of our growing Jewish community, ensuring that customers from all backgrounds feel welcomed and catered to.”

Along with the large Kosher selection, Stop & Shop will also offer all its Waterbury customers enhanced and expansive departments and amenities including meat and seafood departments, large produce, natural and organic selections, a full-service floral department, and extensive prepared food and multicultural offerings. The store will also offer more convenient solutions including curbside Pickup that makes grocery shopping faster and easier for customers.

“Stop & Shop has been proud to serve our Waterbury neighbors for over 40 years,” said Steve Iasimone, Regional Vice President for Stop & Shop. “We are even more proud to be providing residents with a new store, complete with new services and products that will better serve this diverse and wonderful community.”

The store also includes a full-service Stop & Shop Pharmacy offering a variety of services such as vaccine administrations by Stop & Shop’s certified pharmacists, to help protect against the flu, shingles, RSV, pneumonia, tetanus, and COVID-19, as well as free consultations including recommendations and assistance with selecting appropriate over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription (Rx) products.

To commemorate the occasion and further support the local community, Stop & Shop donated $7,500 to Children’s Community School and $7,500 to UConn Waterbury to support both school’s food pantries. Both donations are in connection with Stop & Shop’s School Food Pantry program, where Stop & Shop works directly with schools from Pre-K through college to establish and support their in-school food pantries.

“This generous donation from Stop & Shop will allow us to continue to keep food on our shelves, bring in hygiene products, and several toiletries that are always requested at Husky Harvest,” said Monica Lattimer, Assistant Director of Operations at UConn Waterbury. “I am also elated to see a large, devoted Kosher section at this location to assist our Jewish population.”

“Working with children and families in Waterbury for the last several years, I can see the effect that hunger has in the classroom and the struggle so many of us face with food insecurity in these challenging times,” said Katherin Sniffin, Principal of Children’s Community School (CCS). “There are families that choose between paying the utilities or paying for food, and that makes learning impossible. The contribution of Stop & Shop to help CCS provide food to children and families helps our families worry about one less thing. Thank you to Stop & Shop for stepping up and taking care of our community.”