Peapod Expands to More Than 40 Communities in the Northeast

QUINCY, Mass., July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Peapod by Stop & Shop, the leading online grocer serving New England, New York and New Jersey, continues to expand its home and business delivery service with the addition of more than 40 new communities.

The expansion significantly increases service to the boroughs of New York City and surrounding New Jersey cities. Peapod now delivers to the entire borough of Queens, large sections of Staten Island and several Brooklyn neighborhoods as well as Jersey City, Bayonne and Hoboken, NJ.  

Several shore locations have been added, including Eastham, Mass. and Long Beach Island, N.J., providing a vacation alternative to grocery shopping from the Jersey Shore up to the New Hampshire coast.

The Peapod service is now available to over 8 million households in the Northeast.  "This expansion effort is in direct response to consumer requests," said Peg Merzbacher, director of marketing for Peapod. "We are excited to have the opportunity to serve additional customers."  

Expansion areas include:

• Queens, NY: Astoria, Bayside, East Elmhurst, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside
• Staten Island, NY:  Port Richmond, Tottenville, Willowbrook
• Brooklyn, NY:  Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Navy Yard, Park Slope, Prospect Park
• Massachusetts: Eastham, Falmouth, North Falmouth
• New Hampshire: Atkinson, Kingston, Newton, Plaistow, Salem
• New Jersey: Andover, Bayonne, Barnegat Light, Hoboken, Jersey City, Long Beach, North Bergen, Secaucus, Sparta, Union City, Vauxhall, Weehawken, West New York, West Creek

About Peapod

Founded in 1989 as a smart shopping option for busy people, Peapod today stands as the country's leading Internet grocer, serving the metro areas of Boston, Chicago, Hartford, Milwaukee, New Haven, Providence and Washington, D.C., Suburban New York City and communities in the states of Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia and Wisconsin. The Skokie, Illinois-based company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Ahold in The Netherlands, has made over 13 million deliveries. For more information on Peapod, call 1.800.5.PEAPOD (573.2763), or visit www.peapod.com.

SOURCE Peapod