Stop & Shop to add 900 part-time jobs across regional stores

Stop & Shop has announced plans to 600 part-time jobs in its Connecticut supermarkets, along with 250 in its Westchester stores and 50 in its Dutchess County locations.

The new jobs cover a 12- to 28-hour work week within the store”™s food departments, as well openings for cashiers, porters, baggers and night crews. The company promised “competitive pay” and “career advancement opportunities” for the new positions. Job fairs will be held at Stop & Shop stores on Aug. 31.

“We are eager to hire part-time associates who are looking for a job to serve as the building blocks to a rewarding career with a company that values people and hard work,” said Rudy DiPietro, Stop & Shop’s senior vice president of operations. “Stop & Shop is looking to add associates as it strives to improve the in-store experience for customers and provide even better service in area communities.”

The expansion of the part-time staff follows news from earlier this month that the 11-day strike in April against Stop & Shop by employees belonging to the United Food and Commercial Workers took nearly $100 million out of the second-quarter earnings for the supermarket”™s parent company, Netherlands-based food retailer Ahold Delhaize.