1200 Chews Landing Road
Welcome to the Chews Landing ShopRite!
Welcome back to the Garden State! Today, we're going to be touring a store with a very New Jersey history. The first supermarket to operate in this location was Shop 'n Mart, which opened the store on October 29, 1974. I'm not familiar with Shop 'n Mart, but it seems like they were a small local chain (other locations in Cherry Hill and Voorhees opened on the same day). In 1978, Shop 'n Mart merged with Thriftway, and this store operated under that name until the mid '90s. Super G opened a store in the space on July 10, 1996. The store was converted to a Stop & Shop in September 2005, and was then bought by ShopRite along with most of the other Stop & Shop stores in South Jersey in September 2007. Today, the store is run by the Zallie family. Let's go shopping!
Produce and floral are on the front wall. This store has a really odd layout, with no grand aisle. I believe the layout is left over from Super G.
Dairy is on the right wall. I like the decor here. I don't know how common it is among Zallie's stores, as I've only been to one other - Woolwich, which has their current decor.
Deli and bakery are in the back. This ShopRite serves Boar's Head in addition to the chain's competing brand, Black Bear of the Black Forest.
Snacks and other promotional items are in aisle 13.
A small cafe in the back of the store, with a very tiny seating area. This is probably the strangest part of the layout in my opinion, as I've pretty much only seen cafes in the front of the store.
The pharmacy is up next. I was here on a Sunday, and they're only open until 3:00 on weekends.
The quality meats are next to the pharmacy. This store must not have a service meat department.
It does, however, have a strangely prominent seafood department.
Frozen foods are on the left side of the store. Having frozen foods and dairy on opposite sides of the building is definitely a choice.
We're checking out of the store now. I've definitely never seen self-checkouts numbered up to 90. There definitely weren't 90 registers, so I don't know where that number comes from.
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2019
The trees look much prettier here, but the store itself is pretty much the same.
Thank you for joining me on this tour! This was a pretty nice store. It's a good size and the decor is awesome, but the layout is really bad. It would be nice if the next remodel comes with a new layout, but it's probably going to be a while before this store gets a makeover. Zallie's has their hands full in this area right now, as they're working on a new location about two miles south in the former Clementon Kmart. That store is going to replace the current (and very outdated) Clementon location, which we'll be touring next week! See you then! The Retail Connection: Check out happy.
Definitely an unusual layout! Stuff like dairy in the first aisle I've seen before (still think it's weird though), but I think the cafe in the back is a new one for me.
ReplyDeleteI've seen dairy in the first aisle before, but usually frozen foods are right next to it. The unusual aspect of that is that dairy and frozen are on complete opposite sides of the store. The cafe is definitely the weirdest part of the layout, though.
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