ShopRite announces opening date for new South Plainfield store

ShopRite is opening its newest store at 6781 Hadley Road in South Plainfield on Wednesday.

ShopRite of Hadley Commons will replace the existing ShopRite at 1306 Centennial Ave. in Piscataway which will close at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

To mark the opening of the new 93,000-square-foot supermarket, festivities are planned throughout the day, with food trucks and in-store sampling stations.

The first 200 customers on line for the store opening will also receive special grocery gift bags filled with product samples and coupons.

Community leaders will join the Saker family, which owns and operates the new store, and their retail teams for the ribbon cutting at 7 a.m. At 10:30 a.m. the family will present the Community FoodBank of New Jersey with a donation and food trucks and vendors Tru Fru Food, Deep Foods and Mrs. T’s Pierogies will arrive in the parking lot to offer free samples to shoppers.

Deep Foods and Mrs. T’s Pierogies will be grilling treats on site and offering customers a chance to enter a raffle for a new Weber Grill.

The new store is also offering people the chance to win a $100 ShopRite gift card. For more information on the contest, visit the store’s Facebook page .

“Opening a new store is always a big moment for us because it represents our commitment to provide fresh, quality products and exceptional service in a state-of-the-art store,” Rick Saker, senior vice president of Saker ShopRites, said in a press release. “We’re excited to welcome our customers to this new location and are kicking it off with a great celebration that will include special store happenings throughout the month of May.”

ShopRite of Hadley Commons is owned by Saker ShopRites, a family-owned company made up of third- and fourth-generation grocers with stores in Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset and Mercer counties.

In South Plainfield, there is another ShopRite at 3600 Park Ave. in the Golden Acres Shopping Center. That ShopRite will remain open.

The supermarket expects to hire an additional 200 full- and part-time employees ahead of the store’s opening. Interested candidates can visit the hiring center, located at 6303 Hadley Road to fill out an application or apply online at www.shoprite.com/careers .

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