Ocean County

Stop & Shop Permanently Closes Point Pleasant Beach Location

by
Daniel Nee
November 1, 2024

Stop & Shop (Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/Mike Mozart)

The Stop & Shop chain of supermarkets has closed its location in Point Pleasant Beach amidst a host of store closures first confirmed over the summer.

The chain had operated three local stores – one in Point Pleasant Borough on Bridge Avenue, one in Brick on Brick Boulevard, and the Point Pleasant Beach store on Route 35 South across from the Joe Leone’s market. The Point Beach store had long operated as a Foodtown supermarket before being converted to Stop & Shop more than a decade ago.

Stop & Shop confirmed the store closed at 3 p.m. Thursday and would not reopen. The Point Beach location was one of 10 in New Jersey to close this week, though the vast majority were located in North Jersey. The only other store in the Shore area to close was in Jackson Township. The Brick and Point Pleasant Borough stores were not announced as those among the locations to be shuttered.

The supermarket chain announced over the summer that it would close 32 “underperforming” stores. About 350 would remain after the round of closures, scattered through its five-state footprint. Stop & Shop is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dutch-American supermarket operator Ahold-Delhaize since 2016, prior to which it was owned outright by Ahold since 1995. It shares products, logos and other aspects of management with the Giant chain of supermarkets based in the Washington, D.C. area and its suburbs.

After Thursday, 47 Stop & Shop stores remained open in New Jersey. The full list of the New Jersey stores to close are: