ShopRite of Belmar Owner: Richard Saker / Saker Supermarkets Opened: unknown-2021 Previous Tenants: unknown Cooperative: Wakefern Food Corp. Location: 1801 NJ-35, Belmar, NJ Photographed: December 2020 Today's store tour is really something special! At only 29,000 square feet, it has to be one of the smallest ShopRites out there, if not the smallest. This was built as a Penn Fruit (the other Penn Fruit-turned-ShopRites are Village in Essex Green , which stood on the property where the current store is; and Glass in Paramus , which was abandoned for years before being demolished). Styertowne confirms that it is indeed a former Penn Fruit, but I'll add one thing to their history: this store would've had to have become a ShopRite before the other two did in 1976. Note that this photo from The Star-Ledger shows the store, probably in the late 70s, with the ShopRite logo featuring the silhouette of a woman with a shopping cart instead of just a stylized shopp...