![]() ![]() More than just being a massive retail store, Stop & Shop evolved into a community of sorts, where families meet to shop and later chat about their latest PX finds, update each other about trends, talk about their spouses or sons employed as a seaman or construction worker, and how many snail mails or cassette tapes, with their voice recording, they have sent their loved ones abroad.Īt the time, Stop & Shop was strategically located in the middle of business and commerce of Old Sta. ![]() And at present, when you’re going to Stop & Shop via a jeepney, once you pass by the SM CenterPoint block, you have to shout “Para!” (Stop) because you are exactly where you want to go. Mesa Street is just a stone’s throw away from where the actual Stop and Shop store used to proudly stand. Weekends would see a throng of shoppers scouring imported shoes, bags, home and kitchen essentials, perfumes, and even canned goods, biscuits, and chocolates during those days when SM Centerpoint didn’t even yet exist. Via Tuklas Filipinas page on FacebookStop & Shop, the store, was more than just a go-to place where customers frequent for their essentials and of course, some “Post Exchange” items, or what used to be commonly known as PX goods (items that were holdover from the days when the Philippines still had prominent military bases). ![]() Mesa, and of Manila in general, is an understatement. ![]() Thus, to say that it was part of the rich and colorful history of Old Sta. It was actually a name of a big general merchandise/retail store that sold various local and imported goods (from the U.S.) during the time when malls, supermarkets, and modern grocery stores have not yet taken over. Mesa was still part of the Sampaloc district in Manila (it has been subdivided then in 1911), but a shopping complex which was an iconic landmark way back. Stop & Shop isn’t exact a location, when old Sta. Mesa-a district found squeezed between Mandaluyong, San Juan, and Sampaloc in Manila. Mesa Boulevard (now known as Magsaysay Boulevard) and Old Sta. So, what and where is Stop & Shop? Well, if you ride any of these jeepneys, you’ll end up in a small strip of a street, by a quaint corner at the heart of Sta. The sign indicates “Boni – Stop & Shop”, “Parang – Stop & Shop”, “Cubao – Stop & Shop”. When you find yourself in any major wet market anywhere in Manila, Mandaluyong, Quezon City, and even Marikina, you have most probably seen a jeepney plying the busy streets with a “Stop & Shop” signboard route in front. ![]()
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