>>21705881
Nope. ShopRite is owned by WAKEFERN. I forget what the letters stand for but it's an initialism. WAKEFERN is not so much a grocery company like Albertsons but a franchiser who sell grocery products to franchisees, similar to IGA but not nearly as royally fucked (IGA stores tend to be total SHIT). Because of this, while every Safeway/Acme/Jewell/Osco/Jewell-Osco/Albertsons/Vons/Ralph's and whatever other banners they own are pretty much universally identical in set up, each ShopRite can be extremely different from the next depending on the who owns that particular franchise or how it got its start. For example, there actually is a ShopRite in my area that's in a former Safeway and yeah, it looks like a Safeway. There's also an Acme (I think my area is the only one where Safeways and Acmes coexist) in a former ShopRite but because they've got corporate $$$ behind them rather than having the franchisee pay out of pocket for renovations, they completely redid the interior and it just looks like any other Acme/Safeway now.
To exemplify further how ShopRite franchisees don't tend to bother with remodeling/renovations, the next nearest ShopRite to me is in a former warehouse and it looks like a current warehouse. The floors are untiled concrete and there are columns out of nowhere in the middle of the store. The store offices are on the second floor mezzanine, just as the warehouse offices would have been.
When I lived in NY, there was a ShopRite in Brooklyn that looked like it hadn't been remodeled since 1968.
