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The company is a member of the Wakefern retailers' cooperative and does business as ShopRite and PriceRite. Inserra Supermarkets is headquartered in Mahwah, New Jersey, and operates approximately 23 stores. It is a family-owned business and is one of the 500 largest private companies in the United States. [1]
As of 2023, Wakefern has 48 member companies who own and operate 365 supermarkets, [1] [7] [2] under the ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace, The Fresh Grocer, Dearborn Market, Gourmet Garage, and Fairway Market brands in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. [1] [3] [5]
The former Waterbury, Connecticut location closed in June 2008 and the location was purchased by rival chain ShopRite. This marked a step back for the Price Chopper chain in a highly-competitive area where another chain grocery store, Shaw's of Waterbury, also closed in September 2007 as part of that chain's exit from the state.
ShopRite is an American retailers' cooperative of supermarkets with stores in six states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.. Based in Keasbey, New Jersey, ShopRite consists of 50 individually owned and operated affiliates with over 300 stores, all under its corporate and distribution arm, Wakefern Food Corporation.
Pathmark was formed out of the Wakefern Food Corporation, parent company of ShopRite, Wakefern was both a wholesale operation and a retail operation; among its members was a subgroup, Supermarkets Operating Co., in Union, New Jersey, [4] formed in 1956 by Alex Aidekman, Herb Brody, and Milt Perlmutter. [5]
UFCW Local 1776 represents workers in the state of Pennsylvania for the United Food and Commercial Workers.The larger majority of their members work in grocery stores. The number 1776 refers to the year that the United States Declaration of Independence was drafted in Philadelphia, rather than it being a sequential number of local unions.
A lifelong union organizer, Ebert started attending Union Meetings with his father, Raymond Ebert (former Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 445), at age 10. It was there that he met famed labor leader Jimmy Hoffa , and began helping his father organize Wakefern Foods and St. Luke's Hospital workers in Newburgh , New York.
Much like other retailers cooperatives, such as ShopRite, each Foodtown is independently owned and operated, with some owners operating multiple stores. Foodtown's parent company, Allegiance Retail Services, also supplies Foodtown-branded items and acts as a supplier for other independent grocers that do not operate under the Foodtown banner.