ShopRite Marks 75 Years in a Changing Grocery Market

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From handwritten lists to online carts, ShopRite has been around long enough to see many changes in the way we shop for groceries.

Founded in 1951 by the eight Newark-area mom-and-pop grocers who created Wakefern Food Corp. five years prior, the supermarket banner has since grown into a powerhouse chain of roughly 300 stores across six states.