Stop & Shop cuts prices on health and beauty

QUINCY, Mass. East Coast supermarket chain Stop & Shop has announced that it will lower prices on more than 5,000 products, the company announced Thursday.

Discounted health and beauty items will include shampoos and soaps, vitamins, cotton swabs, bandages, toothpaste and others. The reductions are part of Stop & Shop’s “Low Prices Every Day” campaign, which has also lowered prices on foods, baby-care products, paper goods and household supplies.

Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. employs more than 59,000 people, operating 378 stores throughout New England, as well as New York and New Jersey. It is owned by the Dutch company Ahold.