Stop & Shop Celebrates Remodeled Ozone Park Store

New York State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo Junior (far right) and Assemblywomen Jenifer Rajkumar ( second from right) attended the Stop & Shop ribbon cutting at the newly remodeled Ozone Park store located at 92-10 Atlantic Avenue. Stop & Shop donated $1,000 in gift cards to each of the following local food pantries - Crossover Baptist Church Community Outreach Center; Baitun Noor Masjid (MUNA Center of Ozone Park); St. Matthews Lutheran Church; and TriDevi Sanatan Mandir. ( Photo: Marc Levine)

Stop & Shop today cut the ribbon at its newly remodeled Ozone Park store located at 92-10 Atlantic Avenue. The ceremony was attended by Stop & Shop leadership, as well as Assemblywomen Jenifer Rajkumar and Senator Joseph P. Addabbo Junior. Ozone Park is the third Stop & Shop in Queens to be upgraded as part of the supermarket chain’s $140 million capital investment across its New York City fleet. The store joins the Glendale and Maspeth locations in offering customers a refreshed look, upgraded format and new amenities that seek to enhance the customer shopping experience and better meet the needs of the diverse neighbors its serves.

At the heart of Stop & Shop’s enhancements to its NYC stores is an expanded product assortment that caters to each store’s diverse neighborhood. Ozone Park customers will see that aisles 4,5,6,7 and 8 are now a ‘Global Market’ - a multicultural destination boasting Dominican, Puerto Rican, Caribbean, Latin, and Central and South American products. The store has also expanded its produce offerings to include more tropical fruits and vegetables. There are also now 14 doors of frozen ethnic products, along with expanded Halal dairy and meat, both fresh and frozen. In total, nearly 2,000 new multicultural products have been added across the store.

Stop & Shop Ozone Park also has a renewed focus on value, offering more sale bins and special deals on culturally relevant products highlighted in a New York City-specific weekly circular ad. Ozone Park will also soon offer the Flashfood mobile app, giving customers access to produce, meat, dairy, and other grocery items nearing their best-buy date at discounts up to 50% off.

Other highlights of the remodeled Ozone Park store include:

- Noticeably brighter and more modern décor, plus easier to navigate signage with iconography to help non-native English speakers better understand what’s in each aisle

- Expanded assortment of grab-and-go meal solutions and deli offerings

- Enhanced produce department offering many ways to eat healthy

- Remodeled bakery department complete with delicious cakes, cupcakes, and other treats

- Organic and natural products integrated within the grocery aisles allowing customers to see all product options available

- Relocated and expanded beer section that offers a wider assortment of refrigerated beers, ciders and seltzers

- Updated pharmacy where Stop & Shop’s trained and trusted pharmacists can conveniently and safely administer Flu, COVID-19 and other vaccines, as well as the PickPoint® Will Call System to make the prescription pickup process faster

- Upgraded front-end with new dual lane register to maximize efficiency and minimize wait time

The store continues to offer Pickup, providing customers with a faster and more convenient way to shop. Customers can place an order on the Stop & Shop® mobile app or visit www.stopandshop.com, click on “Order Online” and select “Pickup” at the Ozone Park store. Customers can then head to the store and have a Stop & Shop associate load their groceries right into their car.

“Our customers are thrilled by the enhancements we’ve made at the store, especially the expanded ethnic products in the Global Market,” said Al Paone, Store Manager of Stop & Shop Ozone Park. “It brings me great joy to see that the products we now offer bring our customers a little closer to home.”

To commemorate the remodel, and fight hunger in the borough, Stop & Shop donated $1,000 in gift cards to each of the following local food pantries - Crossover Baptist Church Community Outreach Center; Baitun Noor Masjid (MUNA Center of Ozone Park); St James - St Matthews Lutheran Church; and TriDevi Sanatan Mandir.

Stop & Shop began operating in New York City more than two decades ago and currently operates 25 stores in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island – and home delivery in all five boroughs. Stop & Shop currently operates ten stores in Queens and will celebrate three more Queens remodels next month - Belle Harbor, Arverne and Springfield Gardens.