Peapod Pickup Service Added To Dozens Of Stop & Shop, Giant Stores

Stop & Shop customers used to have two ways to buy their groceries — the traditional trip to the supermarket and ordering a home delivery via the chain’s affiliated Peapod site.

But now there’s a third way: pickup service at dozens of Stop & Shop stores. Dutch parent company Ahold has been adding pickup service at its Stop & Shop and Giant stores at a rate of two to six stores a week in recent months. The company started about a year ago with a Stop & Shop in Abington, and now has more than 80 locations, including 29 in Massachusetts, Peapod director of marketing Peg Merzbacher says. Four are being added this week, including one in Wayland, and the company expects to have 100 by Thanksgiving.

“In the last couple months, we’ve really gone out on a full court press,” Merzbacher says.

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