ShopRite
Opened: ca. 1980
Owner: ShopRite Supermarkets, Inc.
Previous Tenants: none
Cooperative: Wakefern Food Corp.
Location: 278 Tuckahoe Rd, Yonkers, NY
Photographed: March 8, 2019 and August 6, 2025
Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted in September 2020, but was rewritten with new photos in September 2026. Now for the post! Right over the highway from
Bryn Mawr we find the ShopRite of Tuckahoe, the slightly larger ShopRite in Yonkers. The other is the
ShopRite of Greenway Plaza, which is 40,000 square feet to this store's 49,000 square feet.
Like Greenway, this store is owned by SRS, Inc., the corporate division of Wakefern that owns about 40 supermarkets. This one was previously owned by Big V Supermarkets and transferred in ownership around 2000 when Big V went bankrupt.
Those photos above are from my original 2019 set, but now, I've returned and photographed the inside in the summer of 2025. Here's a look at those pictures.
Although the interior is nicely updated and has seen some very significant upgrades in recent years in terms of refrigeration, flooring, fixtures, and decor, you can still tell it's an old-school store. The layout is the biggest giveaway. Produce is in the first aisle with deli at the back. Meats line the back wall with service seafood in the back-right corner. Beer and frozen are on the right side, with dairy in the last aisle and bakery in the front-right corner. To have the service departments tucked away like that is a very circa-1980 setup, so my best guess is that the layout hasn't changed since this store opened. I'm not sure whether this replaced an older store in the area.
This is now the standard decor package for the SRS stores, and I do like it quite a bit. It feels rustic but modern, and it's colorful with some interesting textures when so many chains are going for the all-gray look.
The first aisle is a natural foods aisle, and it used to be branded Live Right with ShopRite. Now, it's just natural foods. You can see the shelving and flooring are slightly different.
And speaking of flooring, while the flooring over in produce and deli has been updated, the rest is older. Despite that -- and all indications suggesting this is a high-volume location -- this store is in excellent shape.
Service seafood is kind of tucked away in this alcove.
You can tell even from the front-end that this is on the smaller side for an SRS ShopRite. There's not as much space as there is in their larger locations. Still, they make the space work very well here.
This post was rewritten on September 8, 2026 with new photos.
SRS took over all the still open Big V stores after they went bankrupt (11/22/2000 is the date I found online) - they had already closed some, particularly those still operating in the "Quonsett" style arched buildings, along with having exited markets like Albany, where SRS returned several years ago.
ReplyDeletePrior to that, Big V had looked at selling the stores to Pathmark, and also at going independent of the ShopRite cooperative but neither worked out.
While not all of SRS is the Big V stores, they are the majority (pretty much any ShopRite in NY state outside the city/LI that existed before 2000 was part of Big V, plus a couple odd NJ ones like Montague).
Thanks for the history here! Makes sense. I hope to get up to Middletown soon to photograph that former store along with the current store across the street.
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