Business Insider/Jessica Tyler ShopRite was very crowded, but it offered a lot of good deals.
- ShopRite and Stop & Shop are two grocery chains with a large presence on the East Coast.
- ShopRite has just under 300 stores and is owned by a private company, Wakefern Food Corp.
- Stop & Shop has more than 400 stores and is owned by Ahold Delhaize, which also operates Giant, Hannaford, and Food Lion.
- Both stores offer online ordering and grocery delivery services. But after shopping at both stores, we found that one offers much better deals than the other.
ShopRite and Stop & Shop are two grocery chains with a large presence on the East Coast.
ShopRite, with just under 300 stores in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, is owned by Wakefern Food Corp. According to Wakefern, which is a privately owned company that doesn't release sales information, most ShopRite stores are family-operated stores.
Stop & Shop operates more than 400 stores throughout New York, New Jersey, and New England, and it is owned by Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch company that also operates Giant, Hannaford, and Food Lion. In its second-quarter earnings release, Ahold Delhaize CEO Frans Muller said, "In the United States, comparable sales growth excluding gasoline was -0.1%, or 1.0% adjusted for the timing of Easter. Volumes at Hannaford and Food Lion remained positive but were challenged at the other US brands."
ShopRite and Stop & Shop both offer online ordering and grocery delivery, through the ShopRite from Home and Peapod delivery programs, respectively.
When we visited both stores, we found that although one was more difficult to shop at, it actually offered better deals.
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