The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company, known as Stop & Shop, is a chain of supermarkets located in the northeastern United States (New England, New York, and New Jersey). From its beginnings in 1892 as a small grocery store, it has grown to over 395 stores chain-wide and employ 63,000 associates. The company began opening gas stations in 2008 to complement their gasoline reward program which offers customers discounted gas prices for shopping at the supermarket. Stop & Shop has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dutch supermarket operator Ahold since 1995. In 2016, Ahold merged with Belgium-based Delhaize Group, (creating Ahold Delhaize) which brought the grocery companies Hannaford, Food Lion and Stop & Shop all under the same parent company.

Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V., commonly known as Ahold Delhaize (OTCMKTS: AHODF), is a

Dutch multinational retail and wholesaling company and one of the world’s largest food retail groups. Ahold Delhaize was formed in July 2016, from a merger between Ahold (Dutch) and Delhaize Group (Belgian). Its business format includes supermarkets, convenience stores, hypermarkets, online grocery, online non-food, drug stores and liquor stores. Its 21 local brands employ 410,000 people at over 7,400 stores in 11 countries, predominantly the Netherlands and Belgium. Some of their American-based grocery subsidiaries include Food Lion, Hannafords, Stop & Shop, Giant Food and Peapod, among others. Ahold Delhaize has an investment grade S&P credit rating of BBB and a long term Moody’s rating of Baa1. In 2023, their market cap was $27.36B and their revenue was around $96.19B. The company has U.S. headquarters in Quincy, MA.