Third Decade reports:

While walking through the produce area of the South Bay Stop & Shop I saw a man in his late-30s to early-40s walk up to the avocados and make the sign of the Cross before picking one.

CDG suggests the Old Connecticut Path Stop & Shop test employees on simple math, so when she hands over 17 soda bottles, she gets back 85 cents and no lip from the customer-service cashier who seems unable to fathom that a cash register could be wrong.

Boston Police report arresting two Dorchester teens, 15 and 16, on charges they took a shopper's iPod at knifepoint outside the South Bay Stop & Shop around 2 p.m. yesterday.

Police say they found the pair at Columbia Road and Dorchester Avenue - and recovered the victim's iPod.

Amy puts the chain on notice she noticed how they raised prices fairly dramatically one week, then lowered them by a few cents the next week just to put up all these little signs about how Stop & Shop is lowering prices.

Sarah confesses and explains:

... Sure, I have brief flings with Russo's and Shaw's. But in the end Stop and Shop is like that deadbeat boyfriend you can't seem to break up with because the relationship is just so convenient.

But I have a confession to make. There is another contender in the mix.

Sometimes ... just SOMETIMES ... I go to Hannaford. ...

It was more than Gienna could stand: The kid stacking the packaged salad greens at her local Stop & Shop had his pants somewhere well south of his hips, letting her see just what kind of cotton undies covered his butt:

... "Pull your pants up," I said.

"What?" he said.

"I said, '"PULL YOUR PANTS UP."' ...

Chris Monks is in heaven now that his local Stop & Shop has installed self-checkout lines:

... You haven't really lived until you've grocery shopped without any human interaction. It's so freeing. There's no need to worry about having to suffer through some small chit-chat with a store employee, or accidentally offending someone by referring to them as Indian when in fact they are Pakistani. (I still say that if that info was on their name tags it would save everyone a lot of trouble). ...

TC photographs the manger scene the McGrath Highway Stop & Shop has set up - on the meat counter:

... If PETA is right, does that mean that Stop & Shop gets smited when the Second Coming occurs? Is it an offering - should I be placing beef jerky in front of creches that I pass?

Lewis Forman has a list of suggestions, including:

... Provide a discount for using the automated system since we're not interrupting your high school employees from talking about that "silly bitch at the party was totally all over him". ...

Earlier:
Who's the idiot who designed the card readers at Shaw's?

Spatch is just a modern lover of Stop & Shop.

Note: Look at these lyrics if you don't get the allusions above.

Earlier:
Buy it! Cook it! Eat it!