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Shop and Shop corporate offices in Quincy MA
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Quincy to lose Stop and Shop in 2 for 1 supermarket merger deal?

The arguably oh so amusingly named Dutch company Royal Ahold, owner of Stop and Shop, and Belgian firm Delhaize Group, which owns Hannaford’s, are in merger talks.

Given considerable overlapping of both companies stores in Massachusetts, federal anti-trust regulations would surely result in a number of store closures or store sales to another company.

For example, a likely sale or closure of the Hannaford’s location in Quincy, regardless of which store name survives the rumored pending merger.

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Beloved Market Basket CEO Arthur T. Demolas
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Quincy Quarry knows from understandably not to be revealed sources within Stop and Shop’s corporate offices in Quincy that its sales have stagnant – at best – and which has been generally reported by other media.

Further troubling, at least as regards the Q, with Ahold’s US Chief Operating Officer is based at its increasingly more important corporate offices in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, one can only logically assume that the long declining number of corporate staff at Stop and Shop’s local Quincy offices would at least suggest the possibility that its local corporate office presence might not be long for the Q.

This, in turn, would be devastating for Quincy as Stop and Shop is currently the largest private sector employer in Quincy Center and which it became after Steward Healthcare relatively recently discontinued full-service hospital services at now largely shuttered Quincy Medical Center.

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Embattled incumbent Quincy Mayor Tom. Koch
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Quincy Quarry considered reaching out for comment from embattled incumbent Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch for comment about the anticipated merger between Ahold and Delhaize, but it saw no point in listening to hot air so soon after yesterday’s hot and humid weather.

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