Stop & Shop Supermarket

I like Stop & Shop. Big Y generally pisses me off and is too expensive so I try not to go there unless they have something on sale. Walmart is too out of the way for this side of town.
This is by far one of the WORST Stop & Shops though. It always looks like a bomb went off… the shelves are always picked over and disorganized. Their purchasing department clearly sucks at their job, when something good goes on sale (i.e. Chobani for $ 1 a piece) they’re cleaned out quickly and then the shelves are barren all week. Order enough to meet demand, I wouldn’t think this is so hard.
I prefer the one in Watertown, any of the ones in Waterbury, or Seymour better.
The self-​checkouts here suck. They give me more problems than any other Stop & Shop. I also wish that they’d get the scan-​it guns so I could ring my stuff up AS I shop, but I suppose Naugatuck is like Torrington, full of raggies that make it too risky. (I had a friend who worked at one of the stores in Torrington who was told that shoplifting is why they don’t have the option for scan-it…I would assume Naugatuck is the same.)
The nice thing is that the store is rarely ever busy.

I’ve been grocery shopping here since I was a kid sitting in the cart! The pharmacists always remember me, the deli staff are always willing to give great advice on current selections, and I have seen cashiers move up through the ranks and become managers. The low employer turnover says something about the kind of place it is — even though it is a big chain grocery store you feel like you’re in a neighborhood shop, which is important in our community today!

I concur with the 3-​star rating previously posted.
The selection at the Naugatuck Stop & Shop is very mediocre. They’ve run out of items plenty of times that nearby locations still had plenty of.
The self-​checkout lines here are very glitchy. Unlike any Stop & Shop I’ve been too and I’ve been to dozens. You literally scan an item, the machine lags and often starts yelling at you. The staff usually just tells you to shove the items to the end of the belt to override. There always seems to be issues with the bottle redemption machines as well.
The only reason I regularly shop here is that I live in Naugatuck, but I often end up having to go to another location to pick up items that they don’t have.

Unlike the excellent Stop & Shop located only 15 minutes away in Watertown, this particular Stop & Shop is run down, small, and has a much smaller selection than most. First thing you will notice is the half-​burned out