Two Best Friends and Business Partners Follow a Dream!
Meet Jo-Ann Branzetti and Raymond Upton
Jo-Ann, a resident of Sandwich for over 20 years, grew up in Rye, N.Y. and spent summers in Wolfeboro, N.H. on Lake Winnipesaukee. She met her husband, Eric, when they were 13 years old and his family bought a summer home near hers. They began...
The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company operates more than 355 supermarkets in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Hampshire and New Jersey and employs more than 56,000 associates. Stopandshop.com offers home delivery services through Peapod, store location lookup, an on-line pharmacy, great recipe ideas, coupons, and the information on the latest happenings in our stores.
Maintaining a location in Sandwich, Mass., Super Stop & Shop is one of the 360 stores in New England, New York and New Jersey owned and operated by Stop & Shop Supermarket Companies. Growing from a single corner grocer founded in 1914, Stop & Shop is a multibillion-dollar corporation and among the largest food retailers in New England. The company pioneered the superstore concept in the...
It was the fall of 1981 and Bob and Pat Hannon had reached a point in their lives where a serious decision had to be made regarding their finances. Bob, a business teacher at Sandwich High School, and Pat, an administrative assistant at a local department store, had two children; Bobby, a sophomore at Connecticut College and Julie, a junior in high school. In two years both children would be in...