925 Providence Road
Welcome to the Secane Price Rite!
Welcome back to The Retail Connection. Today, we're going to take a tour of this Price Rite store in Secane. This location is the only Price Rite in the greater Philadelphia area, which is much more commonly served by sister store ShopRite. This store opened in 2005 in a former Super Fresh. The building itself dates back to 1965 when it opened as an A&P. Without further adieu, let's take a tour!
We enter to the left and into the produce market. This store has been expanded several times over the years, so it's a pretty good size compared to the small A&P it originally was.
Here, we're in the "Drop Zone", a staple of Price Rite. All of the soda you see is on sale.
Quality meats and frozen seafood are diagonally located past the produce department. Price Rite, like most discount grocery stores, doesn't have service departments.
The bakery ("Price Rite Sweet Spot") lines the back wall of the original portion of the store. I was very impressed and surprised by the large selection of baked goods Price Rite has to offer.
Heading into the addition...
Dairy is along the back wall of this part of the store.
Also in this area is the "deli", which is really just a tiny refrigerated case. Obviously, Price Rite does better in the bakery department.
Nine checkouts along the front end, and, for some reason, two "thanks for shopping" messages. This would've been up in the front left corner of the A&P, but for Price Rite it's only in the middle.
Thank you for choosing to shop with Price Rite! They heavily pride themselves on being American-owned, as competitors Aldi and Lidl are based in Germany.
Other Images of Interest
Street View Images
2018
This photo was taken the same month as their grand re-opening, so there are still flags and banners hanging.
2012
This was the original Price Rite logo, used from 1995 to 2017. The newer one is definitely much more modern and less of a "discount store" look, which is the direction Price Rite has been going in.
Nearby competition
0.5 miles away: GIANT of Aldan
Just up the road from this Price Rite is the Aldan GIANT, which opened in 1995 (coincidentally the same year Price Rite was founded). GIANT is a traditional supermarket, so Price Rite is serving a slightly different group, but it's still not like it's an Aldi so I imagine there's some competition. Both stores seemed to be doing well during my visits.
That's going to do it for this tour! Thanks again for stopping by and reading the blog. This was my first time in a Price Rite, and probably my last for a while, so I hope you enjoyed the tour. So long! The Retail Connection: An American Company.
A few Price Rites do actually have service delis. The Gold Star Boulevard one in Worcester, MA and the one in Providence, RI both have service delis, although they're small.
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting. It seems like the bakery is the bigger draw here. I actually thought it was a service department until I got up close and realized there was just a wall behind the case.
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