Stop & Shop In Little Neck To Close Mid-October, Company Says

LITTLE NECK, QUEENS — The Stop & Shop in Little Neck will permanently close in October, a store spokesperson told Patch.

At 6 p.m. on Oct. 14, about three weeks from now, the Stop & Shop located at 249-26 Northern Boulevard will close for good, the spokesperson said.

News of the official closing date comes eight months after the supermarket chain first announced its plan to shutter the Little Neck location, which it says has been falling short of financial goals.

"This store was identified as underperforming relative to financial expectations," the spokesperson told Patch, adding that Stop & Shop regularly evaluates the business performance of its hundreds of grocery stores.

The supermarket chain, however, doesn't know what will come next for the Stop & Shop building, which is located at a small plaza with parking off of Northern Boulevard. The decision of what will replace the market is up to the landlord, the spokesperson said.

Stop & Shop currently operates 13 grocery stores in Queens, and the closure of its Little Neck store will bring that number down to a dozen.

For neighbors in northeast Queens, the nearest Stop & Shop locations are at the Bay Terrace Shopping Center in Bayside, and at Hillside Avenue in New Hyde Park, Long Island