Boston Globe: ‘That’s just not right’: Sen. Warren presses Stop & Shop on grocery prices after study showing differences across neighborhoods

For more than a year, youth organizers with the Hyde Square Task Force in Jamaica Plain have pressed grocery giant Stop & Shop on pricing differences at its Greater Boston locations, alleging that grocery costs in its stores located in more affluent neighborhoods are cheaper than stores that are not.

On Monday, the teen sleuths received reinforcements after members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation sent a letter to Stop & Shop's parent company demanding it provide answers.

In a four-page letter addressed to Frans Muller, CEO of Ahold Delhaize, Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote that the popular grocery chain could be "engaging in corporate profiteering schemes that squeeze residents and families in Massachusetts," based on the youths' report that was first published in the Globe in June of 2023. The letter asks Muller for information on what factors impact pricing differences among the state’s Stop & Shop stores, where the highest and lowest prices for the teens’ original shopping list are in Massachusetts, and the steps the company has taken to make groceries more affordable for customers.

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