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Tops, Stewart’s join list of stores that won’t require masks for vaccinated customers Updated 8:54 AM; Today 8:07 AM This 2019 file photo shows the Tops Friendly Markets store at Town Center in Fayetteville.Stephen D. Cannerelli | syracuse.com Facebook Share Tops Friendly Markets and Stewart’s Shops are joining the growing list of stores that won’t require fully vaccinated customers to wear a mask inside. Tops updated its website Tuesday to say “face coverings are optional for those individuals that are fully vaccinated. Unvaccinated individuals must continue to wear a face coveri...

Some jobs go begging as economy emerges from pandemic’s shadow | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS PHOTO PROVIDED Nick Durrum is shown working in the Stewart's Shops milk processing plant in Greenfield. There are 32 job openings at the plant and a combined 1,200-plus elsewhere across the company's 350 locations. Shares0 ALBANY — Fewer people are working in the Capital Region than a year ago and fewer appear to be seeking work. There were 5.7% fewer jobs in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area in March 2021 than in March 2020, the state Department of Labor reported this week...

Stewart's employees now own 40 percent of company FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Buy PhotoStewart’s Shops President Gary Dake checks out a customer at the Arbor Hill Stewart's Shop on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019, in Albany, N.Y. Dake came to the shop to work the register and to personally thank customers for their generosity for the company's Holiday Match program. The shop, located on Henry Johnson Boulevard, had the highest growth in the first half of the Holiday Match season, with a 244% growth over last year. All the funds raised through the program go to support local children’s o...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Stewart’s Shops employees now own more than 40% of the company through profit sharing, the convenience store chain announced. Just last week, 2,850 partners received their 2020 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) statements, a press release from the company said, noting that their accounts received approximately 20% growth and a $19 million contribution, which is about 19% of their 2020 pay. There are now 105 partners with a balance of more than $1 million, and nearly a third of these millionaires are still actively working. This is possible because of Stew...

Stewart's Shops Reveals More Details on Express Locations SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Stewart's Shops is unveiling plans for the first five smaller-concept Stewart's Express convenience stores for the upstate New York market. Stewart's Express — which "will be a test to see how these shops perform with a decreased product offering and the omission of hand-scooped ice cream, milkshakes, salads, sandwiches, soup or meatballs — comes off the heels of Stewart's Shops' acquisition of fellow Saratoga Springs-based retailer Red-Kap in November. Under the plan, the retailer will convert six...