TOUR: ShopRite - Palisades Park, NJ

ShopRite of Palisades Park

Owner: Inserra Supermarkets

Opened: Late 1990s or early 2000s

Previous Tenants: none

Cooperative: Wakefern Food Corp.

Location: 10 Depot Pl, Palisades Park, NJ

Photographed: January 2020

Tucked away at the end of a tiny dead-end street on the western edge of Palisades Park's Koreatown is this 66,000 square foot ShopRite, built in the 1990s or early 2000s I'd estimate, and despite its out-of-the-way location, an incredibly popular store. Inserra doesn't seem to have had a coherent decor package used for multiple locations until recently, given even a store like Columbia Park which opened around the same time as this one has a different decor package. It was a replacement store for a location roughly a mile south in Ridgefield which is now an H Mart, and we'll be touring that store soon enough too!

This is our final Inserra store for a while. Its layout is very similar to Lodi, except the food court and bakery are switched. Instead of a food court in the front corner to the left of the entrance, the bakery lines the front wall with food court next on the left side wall.

One big difference -- the seating area is actually accompanied here by a prepared foods department! Produce is at the back of this grand aisle area.

Deli and seafood are next along the back wall, and this time the circular ceiling element is slightly more beat-up than Lodi's.

Also notice that Lodi had a random assortment of secondhand carts, but all of Palisades Park's carts are the same.

Floral between the front end and the grocery aisles, with customer service and pharmacy on the other side of these islands.

Looking back towards the bakery and food court in the front corner.

You can see here that although the decor is a little outdated, it's still pretty attractive and at least there is decor!

Juice, eggs, and milk in the back corner, with the rest of dairy continuing along the last aisle.

Now moving into Frozen World in the front corner...

Some awesome 1990s-era ShopRite signage in the equally-old coffin cases!

Also, some very cool promotional materials for the Palisades Amusement Park, located in nearby Cliffside Park and closed in 1971. A nice local touch!

An extremely crowded front-end is here due to the sheer number of customers in the store. Every register was open and the lines were moving very quickly.

We'll be moving just to the southeast to Ridgefield for our next store in the Bergen - Passaic group tomorrow over on The Independent Edition, stay tuned!