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Stop and Compare Receives Award from the SBA

Posted on Jun 20, 2013

Last Friday Stop and Compare Supermarkets were recognized in the 2013 SBA Awards to small businesses. Sponsored by the Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce, the award ceremony was held on Friday 14 June at Fenway Park and attended by 300 small business owners and individuals from government, banking institutions and other organizations. Alberto Calvo, President of  Stop and Compare received the 2013 Massachusetts and New England SBA Minority Small Business of the Year award. Betty Calvo, Owner and Treasurer, received the 2013 Economic Development Achievement Award from the Hispanic American...

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What Does Small Business Care About? An Interview with the Boston Globe

Posted on Nov 7, 2012

Our President, Alberto Calvo, was interviewed by the Boston Globe about Small Business. The following article is from the Boston Globe Business section from November 4th, 2012: What does small business care about? Both presidential candidates have stressed the importance of supporting and encouraging small business to create jobs and move the US economy forward. Globe Sunday business editor Robert Gavin asked four small-business owners from four sectors — technology, health care, retail, and professional services — to discuss economic issues and their views of the presidential race as it...

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Stop and Compare Featured on SBA Success Stories

Posted on Oct 22, 2012

Stop and Compare was just featured on the SBA homepage under “Success Stories”. We have included the full article below as well as a link to the article as it appears on the SBA website. From the SBA: At first glance, Stop and Compare Supermarket appears to be more than a grocery store; it is a community center where its team of owners and operators work day and night to meet and serve their customers. Customers of varied ethnicities come to this shop because of its warm sense of community and because they can find goods they consumed in their native countries right here in this...

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