ShopRite of Drexeline to open next Friday

ShopRite of Drexeline will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony next Friday at its new, 72,000-square-foot supermarket in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, the Wakefern Food Corp. banner announced Wednesday.

Located in the Drexeline Town Center at 5000 State Rd., the store is owned and operated by the Burns family—grocers who have more than 40 years of experience in the supermarket business in the greater Philadelphia area.

The new location is the anchor tenant of the Drexeline Town Center, an 18-acre multiuse development that includes a Drexeline light rail station on site, allowing for a 30-minute commute to Center City Philadelphia.

The new “state-of-the-art” supermarket features grocery essentials, an expanded prepared-foods department and a covered drive-thru canopy for curbside pick-up for online shoppers, the grocer said in a statement.

The store, which also includes a floral, seafood and meat department with on-site butchers will employ close to 250 full- and part-time associates. The new store also includes an eat-in café on the second floor.

On Thursday, Wakefern Food Corp., the country’s largest retailer-owned cooperative, which includes ShopRite supermarkets, voluntarily recalled its ShopRite Bowl & Basket Chicken Noodle Soup due to mislabeling. A limited amount of the product may contain milk, a known allergen not listed on the label, Wakefern said in a statement.

“We are advising customers who purchased the recalled product to return it for an immediate refund or replacement,” said Wakefern Chief Communications Officer Karen Meleta in a statement.

To date, there have been no reports of illness associated with this product recall, Wakefern announced Thursday.