The new Big Y supermarket in the Post Plaza shopping center at 1076 Post Road East is already decked out for the holidays with an array of wreaths on offer. / Contributed photos
Executives of the New England-based Big Y supermarket chain on hand for Thursday’s grand opening of the Westport store were, from left, Joe Fetcho, Nicole Schneider and Matt D’Amour.

WESTPORT — It’s been open for two weeks, but the new Big Y supermarket officially became part of the town’s business community with its “grand opening” on Thursday.

The store in the Post Plaza shopping center, 1076 Post Road East, marked the occasion by offering shoppers who become members in its Big Y Rewards program a chance to be one of three winners in a giveaway sweepstakes.

The supermarket, which had a “soft” opening Oct. 24, last January took over a retail site where plans for a tech-driven Amazon Fresh food store were in limbo for 18 months. Prior to that, the space had been the location of a Barnes & Noble bookstore, which closed at the end of 2020 and moved downtown.

The Westport store is the New England-based, family-owned chain’s first foray into southwestern Fairfield County, with the grocer’s other nearby stores in Stratford, Shelton and Monroe.

Some of the more than 100 employees hired for the new Big Y supermarket posed for a portrait with Joe Fetcho, fourth from left, the store director, during the store’s grand opening Thursday.
The new Big Y supermaket on Post Road East marked its grand opening Thursday with a host of special offers, displayed here by Joe Fetcho, the store director.

The Big Y company was founded in Massachusetts in 1936, and is still owned and operated by the third generation of the D’Amour family, according to the company website. They began opening stores in Connecticut in the 1980s, and currently operate more than 90 Big Y stores in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Big Y supermarket, 1076 Post Road East, is open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. For more information call 203-349-4138.


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