Shoprite Wakefern Food Corporation

Wakefern Food Corporation is the wholesale purchasing and distributing cooperative for about 190 ShopRite supermarkets that operate in New Jersey (where it is the dominant grocery chain), New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Owned by 43 independent grocers, it is the largest such co-op in the United States. To provide goods at competitive wholesale prices for its member stores, the co-op purchases foods and other items both at home and abroad and distributes them from its warehouses in New Jersey, where it maintains its corporate headquarters. Using 2.5 million square feet of warehousing, most of it located within one mile of the Port of New York docks, Wakefern distributes goods, some shoprite wakefern login ess wakefern com packaged under its own label, to its member stores. To accomplish this, it uses one of the largest private transportation fleets on the East Coast, consisting of over 400 tractors and 2,000 trailers, which provide day-to-day deliveries of its various goods throughout its fairly concentrated network of ShopRite stores. Wakefern also offers centralized services to its member stores, including advertising, group insurance, and marketing. It also has facilities for processing its own brand milk, fruit juices, and fish. All ShopRite grocery companies are Wakefern members and, regardless of the number of stores each owns, they all have an equal voice in the governance of the cooperative. Two of the member companies—Big V Supermarkets Inc. and Inserra Supermarkets, Inc.—own and operate over one quarter of the stores, but most member grocers operate fewer than five