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In Hyde Park, it could soon be time to Stop & Shots

By adamg on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 12:48pm

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the new owner of the old Green Gardens packie and market on West Milton Street in Hyde Park change the store's name to Stop & Shots Liquors & Deli.

At a hearing today, Tom Truax, attorney for owner Vadilson Pina, gave three reasons for the proposed name change: Pina doesn't want to be associated with the previous owners, with whom there were unspecified issues, stigma, even, associated with them; he likes the alliteration of the S sounds and "it's a play on Stop & Shop.' "

Nobody, including the grocery chain, spoke against the proposed name change.

Neighborhoods: 
Hyde Park
Topics: 
Business
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West Milton Street
Boston Licensing Board


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Comments

By schneidz on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 12:55pm.

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By CopleyScott17 on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 1:03pm.

Why not call it "Shots, Loosies, and Keno"?

By fredly on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 1:37pm.

“We sell ciggies and beer, what the fuck more do ya want?”

By BostonDog on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 1:08pm.

How about Slurred & Sloshed

EDIT: Stop & Stir would also be an improvement.

By Ron Newman on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 1:17pm.

I'm very surprised they'd let this get through uncontested, especially since some Stop & Shop stores sell alcoholic beverages. Is it possible that their legal team wasn't paying attention?

By BostonDog on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 1:27pm.

In Somerville on Broadway and Rt 16 there's a liquor store next to the Stop and Shop called "Contan Liquors".

Whenever I look at the sign by the road I think it says, "Contains Liquors" as if to let people know it's one of the few S&S where you can buy booze.

By Ari O on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 1:19pm.

Nobody, including the grocery chain, spoke against the proposed name change.

Yes, but wait until their lawyers find out about it. They will not be particularly kind.

By cybah on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 1:42pm.

I'm not so sure about that.

There are several 'stop & shop' clone named stores out there. Mostly small markets..

and of course "Compare" (latino grocer) which in spanish means "Shop". combined with their tag line "Stop & Compare", which in loosely translated would be "Stop & Shop".

I think the words "Stop" and "Shop" are so generic that it would be hard to prove brand confusion. Plus this is a liquor store, Stop & Shop doesn't sell that (well except for some key locations like Malden)

By anon on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 2:29pm.

..compare in Spanish means compare.

Comprar might be what you're thinking of.

/End pedantic moment

By cybah on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 6:55pm.

I know the owner of the store :-) He has explained to me the name.

What I state is his explanation. It's a playing on words.

By anon on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 4:41pm.

Right now, Stop & Shop doesn't have a surplus of cash to expend on frivolous lawsuits.

By Lee on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 1:21pm.

A misspelling of Stop and Shoot came first to mind.

By necturus on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 1:37pm.

Stop and Shop merges with A&P to become Stop and Pee.

By Sator on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 1:44pm.

missed opportunity

By hydeparkish on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 1:59pm.

Stop and shop propably doesn't care as long as there is no logo that is similar to theirs.

By Dave on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 2:14pm.

I wonder what the "issues" and "stigma" are?

Under the original owners, you could take out enough meat from your subs to make another sandwich or two and still have a sub that was more packed than the subs that the chains serve. Once they got bought out several years ago, it was hard to tell when they were even supposed to be open.

By chaosjake on Thu, 10/17/2024 - 10:20pm.

Fuck this guy for slandering Quan. The former owners were beloved in the neighborhood. Great subs, generous portions, decent beer at 25% lower prices than others in the neighborhood. They fed me a few times during covid when the grocery store shelves were bare. And the time Quan sprayed Lysol directly in the face of the belligerently unmasked guy in like April 2020! Unfortunately never able to reopen after a mid-pandemic fire, so I've been looking in the windows at all the unsold liquor and wondering what the deli cooler smells like for a few years now.

By Dave on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 2:19pm.

VJ Partners, Inc.

Doing business as: Green Gardens Liquor & Deli

35 W Milton St, Hyde Park, MA 02136

License #: LB-101975

Holder of a Retail Package Store All-Alcoholic Beverages License has petitioned to change the DBA of the licensed business - From: Green Gardens Liquor & Deli To: Stop and Shots Liquor & Deli.

Attorney: Thomas T. Truax

By adamg on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 7:18pm.

Lame mistake fixed.

By Brent Jeffries on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 2:32pm.

I suppose it's marginally better than naming it "Pop a Cap."

By steve_ce on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 6:16pm.

Gotta give a hat tip to the food not just the booze.