After announcing the chain would close several Massachusetts stores by November, Stop & Shop is finalizing those closures and shuttering seven locations throughout the state, Thursday, Oct. 31.
Thousands of Bay Staters who do their shopping at Stop & Shop in selection neighborhoods will in have to find a new place to get their groceries after Thursday.
These closures come as part of the company’s larger cost-savings initiatives, in which Stop & Shop announced the slated closures of 32 “underperforming” stores by the end of the year — eight of which are in Mass…