Stop & Shop Opened: 2015 Previous Tenants: Waldbaum's Location: 999 Montauk Hwy, Shirley, NY Post Author: Alexweb8 Surely, this was not originally a Stop & Shop. Surely, it's the Shirley store... ...and don't call me Shirley. This Stop & Shop is quite fresh. If your A&P detector is going off, that only means it's working. This is the old Shirley Waldbaum's store. And by "old," we mean 1990. This was not a popular time for A&P to be building stores on Long Island. That said, there were a few, and they are certainly not without their quirks. After acquiring the Waldbaum's chain in 1986, our friends in Montvale decided that the Waldbaum's name resonated well enough with Lawn Guylanders--despite the lack of consensus regarding its pronunciation--that no newly opened stores would carry the A&P name. For better or worse, the integration of Waldbaum's into the Tea Company family was slow-going. At the time ...