By Allison Perrine
MIDDLETOWN – After visiting the interior of the new Saker ShopRite on Kings Commons along Highway 35 and Kings Highway, one thing is clear: It’s not an average grocery store.
From the aisles that make plans and layout design to locally prepared bloodless cuts, new cheeses, culinary specialties, and a 20,000-square-foot wine and spirits section, everyone is sure to find what they’re looking for in this unique supermarket, and at the right price.
“Some other people think of ShopRite as their grandmother’s grocery store and it’s not, it’s not Saker ShopRites,” said Amanda DePalma, director of public relations and government affairs for Saker ShopRites. more productive than what exists under a banner of trust. There is a difference when owners live, paint and shop at their outlets.
The new location on Kings Commons, next to fast food chain Wendy’s and investors bank, where Sears once stood, is across the street from its former site in the middletown plaza shopping center. Now, five months after construction began, an area of 91,624 square feet is available, Saker took advantage of the opportunity.
One vital thing you should know about this supermarket is that quality is vital to the Saker family. The store’s takeaway on a food shelf in position offers more than 1,000 pieces per day, freshly made in Dearborn’s world-class kitchens and farms, adding new pasta from scratch, snacks with one hundred percent herbal meats, Chinese food, sushi, snacks and more.
Mozzarella is freshly ready every day with appliances imported from Italy that Richard Saker, president and CHIEF executive officer of Saker ShopRites, Inc. , described as the “Rolls-Royce” of mozzarella machines. And if mozzarella is your thing, there are over two hundred other types of cheeses available, as well as a salad and olive bar, a hot, bloodless buffet, a coffee station, a full-service seafood branch with deliveries of new fish every day, a bakery, local produce. Delicacies.
“Food service is now even more popular than ever,” Saker said. “It makes things easier. A lot of other people like to eat to take away for dinner. “
In addition, the store includes a wellness and fitness nutrition center to offer shoppers biologic and gluten-free products suitable for all types of diets and lifestyles, while maintaining costs. middle will locate a wide variety of specialty products, adding raw honey and herbs from local hives; soup syrups; protein-rich products and “keto”; cereals; rice and cereals; macaroni with herbal cheese; biological pasta and much more.
Another detail of Saker ShopRites is the variety, which can be noticed in its variety of yogurts; they will be offering 106 other types. The store also has 3 full normal milk coolers, a special milk cooler, a lactose-free milk and at least 4 plant-based beverage coolers, some of which are the award-winning Bowl store logo
New to this location is a 20,000-square-foot wine and spirits store with 10,000 products: wines, beers and spirits and similar items. “You’ll have a hard time finding a bigger selection,” DePalma said, adding that the liquor store’s inclusion adds to the delight of the one-stop shop at ShopRite. “People want to buy quickly. It’s about spending more time with the other people you love, not doing the things you want to do to survive.
Saker ShopRites has been provided in the region for decades. Saker currently owns 32 ShopRite supermarkets, 30 pharmacies and Dearborn Market and Garden Center, according to the company. The Saker organization also owns and/or operates 3 liquor retail outlets in Monmouth. Area of the county. It’s a fourth- and fifth-generation family business circle that employs more than 9,000 people, adding about 320 on the new Kings Commons site. Anyone interested in applying can do so at the store or make a stop at oprite. com/ races.
“We have a longstanding commitment to Monmouth County and Middletown and look forward to opening this new mall with our world-class ShopRite as the centerpiece,” Saker said in a news release shortly before opening. “We thank our consumers and the network for them as we build this new fashion market. “
The article was originally published in the June 24-30, 2021 print edition of The Two River Times.
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