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Gallery: All is well at ShopRite

Jon Springer, Executive Editor

May 27, 2014

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Gallery: All is well at ShopRite

Village Super Market’s new ShopRite store in Morristown, N.J., illustrates many of the health and wellness attributes that made the Wakefern Food Corp. cooperative the recipient of SN’s annual Whole Health Enterprise award.

The store, which includes a gym holding free yoga classes twice daily, uses consumer interest in health and wellness as an avenue toward improved service and loyalty. The store also showcases an evolution of foodservice concepts, ranging from better-for-you options to the strictly indulgent.

Merchandise selection reveals an eye for competing concepts, borrowing ideas from restaurants, warehouse clubs, and Wegmans Food Markets, which is reportedly looking to build at a site nearby.

Read related story: Wakefern wins SN Enterprise Award

About the Author

Jon Springer

Executive Editor

Jon Springer is executive editor of Winsight Grocery Business with responsibility for leading its digital news team. Jon has more than 20 years of experience covering consumer business and retail in New York, including more than 14 years at the Retail/Financial desk at Supermarket News. His previous experience includes covering consumer markets for KPMG’s Insiders; the U.S. beverage industry for Beverage Spectrum; and he was a Senior Editor covering commercial real estate and retail for the International Council of Shopping Centers. Jon began his career as a sports reporter and features editor for the Cecil Whig, a daily newspaper in Elkton, Md. Jon is also the author of two books on baseball. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English-Journalism from the University of Delaware. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. with his family.

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