ShopRite of Tri-City Plaza Owner: Rich Cohen Opened: 2020 Previous Tenants: Ames > Price Chopper (2004-2019) Cooperative: Wakefern Food Corp. Location: 35 Talcottville Rd, Vernon, CT Photographed: November 21, 2021 Welcome to Vernon, Connecticut! The town of 30,000 people is about 10 miles outside Hartford and home to two Stop & Shops, an ALDI, and this ShopRite. This store opened in 2020 in part of a former Price Chopper (which itself was originally an Ames). The Price Chopper was a behemoth of a store at over 100,000 square feet, and the ShopRite is significantly smaller (but still quite large) at 75,000 square feet. They took the right 3/4 of the store, and the left 1/4 is now a Home Sense. The store is owned by the Cohen family, which also owns two other Connecticut ShopRites under their company Waverly Markets , in Manchester and East Hartford . The store reopened in early 2020, just days before the major coronavirus shutdowns started. W...