ShopRite of Hadley Commons to Open May 8
South Plainfield, NJ (May 2, 2024) – ShopRite is excited to announce the grand opening of its newest store, located at 6781 Hadley Rd. in Hadley Commons Plaza in South Plainfield, will take place May 8 with a community celebration and ribbon cutting starting at 7 a.m. To mark the opening of the 93,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art supermarket, festivities are planned throughout the day, with food trucks and in-store sampling stations. The first 200 customers on line for the store opening will also receive special grocery gift bags filled with product samples and coupons.
Community leaders will join the Saker family, which owns and operates the new store, and their retail teams for the 7 a.m. ribbon cutting. Later that morning, at 10:30 a.m., the family will present the Community FoodBank of New Jersey with a donation and food trucks and vendors Tru Fru Food, Deep Foods and Mrs. T’s Pierogies will arrive in the parking lot to offer free samples to shoppers. Deep Foods and Mrs. T’s Pierogies will be grilling treats on site and offering customers a chance to enter a raffle for a new Weber Grill. The ShopRite of Hadley Commons is also offering people the chance to win a $100 ShopRite gift card. For more information on the contest, visit the store’s Facebook page.
“Opening a new store is always a big moment for us because it represents our commitment to provide fresh, quality products and exceptional service in a state-of-the-art store,” said Richard Saker, CEO and president of Saker ShopRites. “We’re excited to welcome our customers to this new location and are kicking it off with a great celebration that will include special store happenings throughout the month of May.”
The new ShopRite will offer a wide selection of groceries including locally sourced foods and fresh produce, as well as popular national brands and our award-winning Bowl & Basket, Wholesome Pantry and Paperbird private label lines. The store will also feature an expanded line of international foods and dishes including Southeast Asian specialties, and Kosher and Halal products. In addition, the store will offer a Saker ShopRites World Class bakery with special occasion cakes and freshly made bread, an extensive meat department with trained butchers, a seafood department with daily, fresh catch deliveries, a floral shop, a full-service deli department, and prepared foods department featuring Saker ShopRites’ own World Class Kitchens and specialty Dearborn Farms brands, a pharmacy and more. ShopRite’s online shopping service, Order.Pickup.Deliver., will also be available at the new location.
ShopRite of Hadley Commons is owned by Saker ShopRites, a family-owned company made up of third and fourth generation grocers with stores in Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset and Mercer counties.
The supermarket expects to hire an additional 200 full- and part-time employees ahead of the store’s opening. The jobs offer flexible hours and a variety of cross training to provide employees with the knowledge, skills and tools to work as a team throughout the store. Interested candidates can visit the hiring center, located at 6303 Hadley Rd. to fill out an application or apply online at www.shoprite.com/careers.
The new store will replace the existing ShopRite of Piscataway, at 1306 Centennial Ave., which will close Tuesday, May 7, at 6 p.m.
About ShopRite
ShopRite is the registered trademark of Wakefern Food Corp., a retailer-owned cooperative based in Keasbey, NJ, and the largest supermarket cooperative in the United States. With more than 270 ShopRite supermarkets located throughout New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland, ShopRite serves more than six million customers each week. Through its ShopRite Partners in Caring program, ShopRite is dedicated to fighting hunger in the communities it serves. Since the program began in 1999, ShopRite Partners in Caring has donated $62 million to food banks that support more than 2,200 worthy charities. As a title sponsor of the ShopRite LPGA Classic Presented by Acer, ShopRite has donated $40 million to local organizations, hospitals and community groups. For more information, please visit https://shop.shoprite.com/