Wakefern's current chairman is Joseph Colalillo.

* Brown's Super Stores Inc. ( Headquartered in Westville, New Jersey ) – Operates 9 ShopRite stores in Pennsylvania and 1 store in New Jersey.

* Food Parade / Greenfield's ShopRite ( Headquartered in Plainview, New York ) – 2 on Long Island: Plainview and Commack.

* ShopRite of Pennington ( Headquartered in Pennington, New Jersey ) – Operates approximately 5 stores.

* ShopRite Supermarkets ( SRS ) ( Headquartered in Edison, New Jersey and wholly owned by the Wakefern cooperative ) – Operates 27 corporately owned-and-operated ShopRites ( including those taken over from Big V Stores ): Hamilton, New Jersey ( two stores ); Montague, New Jersey ; Pennington, New Jersey, South Bordentown, New Jersey, Spotswood, New Jersey, and Trenton, New Jersey ; Bedford Hills, Carmel, Chester, Croton, Ellenville, Fishkill, Hudson, Kingston, Liberty, Middletown ( 2 ), Monroe, Montgomery, Monticello, Scarsdale, White Plains, Newburgh, New Paltz, Peekskill, Thornwood, Vails Gate, Wappengers Falls, Warwick, and Yonkers ( 2 ), New York

* Sunrise ShopRite ( Headquartered in West Caldwell, New Jersey ) – Operates 2 stores including the famous Japanese-inspired ShopRite of West Caldwell, New Jersey and another store in Parsippany, New Jersey.

Supermarket chain ShopRite, headquartered in New Jersey and found in the mid-Atlantic region, uses the cancan in animated commercials twice a year to advertise their large sale on canned goods.

The New York City market is increasingly served by FreshDirect, YourGrocer. Com and ShopRite from Home.

In 1993, Price Chopper launched an updated version of the Super Center format with their South Hills Mall store (# 2 — store closed on July 15, 2006 and was converted into a ShopRite ) in Poughkeepsie, New York when the chain entered the Mid-Hudson Valley.

The three stores currently in New Jersey continue to face stiff competition from Ahold owned Stop & Shop, the ShopRite cooperative, and, to a lesser extent, A & P.

In New Jersey, Weis's chief competition includes A & P, Giant-Carlisle's sister chain, Stop & Shop, and ShopRite.

ShopRite Supermarkets is a retailers ' cooperative ( co-op ) chain of supermarkets in the northeastern United States, with stores in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

Based in Keasbey, New Jersey, ShopRite consists of 47 individually owned-and-operated affiliates with more than 230 stores, all under its corporate and distribution arm, Wakefern Food Corporation.

ShopRite originated in 1946, when a Del Monte Foods sales representative talked to independent grocers in Newark, New Jersey.

In 1958, ShopRite cut prices by 10 % as an alternative to giving away trading stamps, which other supermarkets in New Jersey were doing.

For example, the ShopRite of West Caldwell, New Jersey has a Japanese motif inside and outside of the store ( including rickshaws and an exit sign reading " Sayonara ".

While New Jersey is home to the most ShopRite stores, the chain also has a strong presence in the New York City suburbs, and in Pennsylvania ( mostly in the Philadelphia area ).

In New York's Capital District, ShopRite initially had stores through 1988.

However, in 2011-2012, ShopRite returned to New York's Capital District with stores currently in Niskayuna and Albany.

For many years, Foodarama operated very a small ShopRite Garden Center on Route 130 in East Windsor, New Jersey.

One store ( in Pennington, New Jersey ) even offers a bar right inside the ShopRite store.

Members operate 36 ShopRite Wine and Spirits Shops in New Jersey and New York.

Sunrise ShopRites of West Caldwell also operates three ( Parsippany, New Jersey, West Caldwell, New Jersey and Westfield, New Jersey ) ShopRite Sunrise Wine-Cellar locations which offer an expanded selection of high-quality and specialty wines.

* Brookdale ShopRite Inc. – Operates a store in Bloomfield, New Jersey.

* Nutley Park ShopRite – Operates a store in Nutley, New Jersey.

* ShopRite of Oakland, Inc. – Operates one store in Oakland, New Jersey.

* ShopRite and Always Save ( 1994 – 96 ; alternate until 1999 )

* Buonadonna ShopRite – 2 ( Bay Shore and West Babylon, Long Island ).

The Cherry Hill Arena was demolished in the 1980s and replaced by a shopping center, the main of which was-at different times-a Kmart and three grocery stores, a Super G, Stop & Shop, and lastly a now-closed ShopRite.

The shopping center has 50 stores and restaurants, including Barnes & Noble, Dick's Sporting Goods, Kohl's, ShopRite, Old Navy, Talbots, and Panera Bread.

Shaw's Supermarket was one of the top five major employers, but the Hamden Shaw's was sold to ShopRite in a sale of Shaw's Connecticut stores announced on February 13, 2010.

* Inserra Supermarkets, a member of the ShopRite retail cooperative, operating approximately 22 stores.

Other stores such as Costco and ShopRite also use the coin deposit system, but it is not used at all of their locations.

The former Food Fair / Pantry Pride stores were replaced by or remodeled into stores with the standard Acme prototype of the 1970s, as were many expanded A Frame buildings and a few former Pathmark ( also once known as ShopRite ) stores.

In 1968, Supermarkets General left the Wakefern cooperative, renaming its ShopRite stores Pathmark.

These stores continued to underperform and were subsequently sold in 2007 to ShopRite franchise owners.

The name " Wakefern " is a portmanteau of the founders ' names: W for Louis Weiss, A for Sam and Al Aidekman, K for Abe Kesselman, the first E for pronunciation purposes, and FERN for Dave Fern ), although the company adopted the name ShopRite for its stores in 1951.

Wakefern supplies all of its members ' ShopRite stores as well as the PriceRite chain.

More recently, ShopRite has renovated, expanded, or rebuilt many of its older stores, and added new ones.

Some older ShopRite stores date to the 1950s and 1960s.

Since 1999, ShopRite has offered an online grocery shopping service on its website, under the service name ShopRite from Home, through MyWebGrocer. com, at some stores.

ShopRite stores that were previously other stores usually contain elements of the previous occupant.

In 2010, ShopRite expanded its presence in Connecticut through the purchase of 11 former Shaw's stores.