ShopRite of Tri-City Plaza Owner: Rich Cohen Opened: 2020 Previous Tenants: Ames > Price Chopper (2004-2019) Cooperative: Wakefern Food Corp. Location: 35 Talcottville Rd, Vernon, CT Photographed: November 21, 2021 Welcome to Vernon, Connecticut! The town of 30,000 people is about 10 miles outside Hartford and home to two Stop & Shops, an ALDI, and this ShopRite. This store opened in 2020 in part of a former Price Chopper (which itself was originally an Ames). The Price Chopper was a behemoth of a store at over 100,000 square feet, and the ShopRite is significantly smaller (but still quite large) at 75,000 square feet. They took the right 3/4 of the store, and the left 1/4 is now a Home Sense. The store is owned by the Cohen family, which also owns two other Connecticut ShopRites under their company Waverly Markets , in Manchester and East Hartford . The store reopened in early 2020, just days before the major coronavirus shutdowns started. While Waverly has kept the maj
Price Chopper Opened: 2007 Previous Tenants: none Location: 675 Poquonnock Ave, Windsor, CT Photographed: November 10, 2020 Contributor: Oliver G. Today's store is a quick look at the Price Chopper in Windsor! Our contributor briefly worked at this store and brings us this picture of the roughly 64,000 square foot supermarket. It's a pretty straightforward-looking Price Chopper, built from the ground up in 2007 . Here's a look inside. Windsor is also home to a 21,000 square foot Geissler's IGA, a chain of seven CT/MA stores supplied by Bozzuto's. We'll be touring our share of Price Chopper stores, but tomorrow we're headed to the east to check out a store that Price Chopper recently closed and is now another chain!