TOUR: ShopRite - Lawrenceville, NJ

ShopRite of Lawrenceville

Owner: Richard Saker / Saker Supermarkets

Opened: early 2000s

Previous Tenants: Kmart

Cooperative: Wakefern Food Corp.

Location: 3373 Brunswick Pk, Lawrenceville, NJ

Photographed: January 2021

Moving basically next door from yesterday's stop (which is the Wegmans in the mall just to the north, but over half a mile away) we are touring the 78,000 square foot ShopRite of Lawrenceville today. This store opened in the early 2000s in a former Kmart, likely replacing an older store nearby -- or at least that would be my guess.

It's a fairly standard Saker store, although as we'll see it's looking very good. We find the grand aisle on the left side, with produce taking up the front. Cheese, deli, and prepared foods are at the back of the grand aisle, with meat and seafood on the back wall. Dairy and frozen are on the right side of the store, with a kosher department and pharmacy in the front right corner.

We can tell that this is an older Saker store given this layout; the bakery and Chinese food/sushi counter are in an island to the right.

I was surprised how empty some parts of this store were. I'm sure it does good business, but I bet a fair amount of potential business is taken away by the Wegmans.

Bakery in the front. We can also see the awning structures left over from the previous decor package over the counters, and the older promotional signage (frozen delights, in the front, for instance).

The bread counter faces the front-end, with breads from La Brea and Hudson Bread; the other pastries are made in-house.

Chinese food and stir-fry bar at the back, with sushi just to the left.

As we move towards the back, we encounter cheese before getting to the World Class Kitchens and deli.

There's a small seating area in the back corner here and you can also go up to the second floor for more seating. This store has notably more diversity in food than most of the other Sakers, likely driven by the diversity in the area's demographics. One case is dedicated to East and South Asian Cuisine, something we don't see too often.

This all looks great, but I predictably went for the delicious stir fry. As always.

Regular deli and then seafood are up next on the back wall.

Here's a shot looking across the back of the store. As always, aisles 1 and 2 are the Nutrition Center...

I do wish the sign hanging from the ceiling here were a bit more visible. It kind of gets lost up in the ceiling.

I like the large countryside pictures around the whole store, but as I've said, it's time for some new decor I think.

Or at least some more up-to-date-looking fixtures. I, of course, would rather see polished concrete floors and black or dark gray cases, which I think would look much more modern.

Frozen and dairy at the far right side of the store...

And in the front corner we encounter something we haven't seen yet in a Saker ShopRite, which is a kosher department. There's a kosher deli/butcher on the front wall, and packaged and refrigerated foods in the aisles opposite it.

Pharmacy is up next on the front wall, and then we move on to the front-end...

Looking back over to produce/grand aisle here. We have come towards the end of our Princeton area group, so check out our final stop just west of here tomorrow with one store here on The Market Report and one over on The Independent Edition!