ShopRite of Parkside Owner: Jeff Brown Opened: 2008 Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: Wakefern Food Corp. Location: 1575 N 52nd St, Parkside, Philadelphia, PA Photographed: December 2021 Welcome to Philadelphia! I am very excited to be presenting a few wonderful supermarket selections from within the city. Now, this is by no means the highlight reel of the city -- there are lots of fantastic supermarkets across Philadelphia, and only so many that I've been able to get to. So we'll be going through around 20 tours and plenty of smaller posts over the next few weeks. Let's begin with a major player in the Philadelphia market -- Wakefern Food Corp, which runs ShopRite and Fresh Grocer stores in and around Philadelphia. Wakefern is, of course, the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the world, so each store is individually owned and operated. So before we begin, some background. The ShopRite stores tend to be larger, more value-focused, and lower-end (thou...