ShopRite Of Spotswood

Delivery is the best around the holidays! Thank you Christina for calling the substitutions and for making arrangements to deliver my item tomorrow! Thank you Lisa for making a special note! Awesome customer experience!!! I’ve been shopping pea pod for years never again! You can’t beat the prices at Shoprite and the staff including the driver are extremely professional!!!

This is an OK spot. Not as big as the one in EB, although the aisles seem wider, yet everything feels a bit more cramped. Maybe it’s just perception. Does look clean, maybe not as updated at the one in EB, but they have a big selection of produce that looks fresh.
Have their Redbox machines outdoors.
Parking lot is shared with other businesses, and small. I never like parking in here, feels tight no matter the size of the car.
A lot of the employees were young (at least the evening I went), and they seemed to be conversing more with each other than doing anything. Granted it wasn’t busy but was just odd they were hanging out so casually.
Good supermarket, just not my preferred location.

This is a horrendous store but it’s not because of the employees… the customers are some of the rudest individuals on earth. I hate to stereotype but the old self-​entitled Jews that leave their carts in the middle of aisles and then screech when they’re moved so others can get through (including handicapped individuals) and then block the check out lines and belts because they’re too busy gabbing with friends or on their phones are DISGUSTING. Hate this place.

Free Turkey with $ 400 purchase? My ass. Was $ 2.19 a pound. Target had it for $.99 a pound. Butterball. Paid more for free???

I love this store. It’s 24-​hour which is so utterly fantastic, I’m so glad they let us in at night. Also, they were open on generators right after hurricane Sandy. It was the only thing that made me feel like I was still in civilization. The only reason this is not five stars is, for some reason, all the ShopRites don’t carry Boars Head lunchmeats. If they’d fix that one thing, I could one-​stop-​shop here with great satisfaction.

Over all it is a wonderful supermarket with friendly people everywhere ! Coming from New York I can appreciate a friendly face and a nice welcoming. Food is priced pretty cheap and the place is clean and organized! Except for todays encounter with begging teens at the entrance which made me uncomfortable trying to juggle twin girls this place is a joy!

First off, I have no idea why it’s listed as located in south river. That being said, this place will always hold a special place in my heart as I grew up a five minute walk away. Even with the renovation, it does seem a bit old and not as clean as the stop and shop up summerhill or big as the east brunswick shoprite. However, it’ll meet all your shopping needs and the customer service I’ve had here throughout the store has been very good.

They have all the necessities you would need in a supermarket. I just wish they had more organic food items. I also do not care for the fish that they sell. I find them to not be fresh… I bought a packaged lobster and I went home to cook it and it STUNK of ammonia. So basically it was a rotting fish and I almost ate it. I brought it right back to the store and got a refund because the manager even agree with me. So because of that I go to Whole Foods. But otherwise, this store is clean and there are staff all around the store to help you.

I know they’re everyone’s favorite store, but not mine. I only go there when forced too or its only store around when I need something. They are always wall to wall crowded, employees are always miserable and rude, as are the customers that frequent EVERY single location. Prices if you know them aren’t that cheap, sales are usually run as the same with other competitors. Meats are never appealing. doesn’t matter location. Produce is so so, would rather go to farm market or other stores with better produce, usually sale stuff is okay but not always. Their isnt much selection on ethnic foods inless its kosher, deli counter? It would take a week to order anything. Bakery is hit or miss. Can’t deal with screaming kids, pushy nasty soccer moms who think the aisles are the preliminary try outs for stock car races, elderly people that think they do own both lanes, and parking lots that are small demolition derby arenas. No thanks.

I can’t believe I’m compelled to write a review about a place I often consider to be the tenth level of Hell that Dante forgot. But alas, it must be done. Why must it done? Because this ShopRite is the bizarrest of anomalies in terms of neighborhood supermarkets, and it simply demands to be written about.
Ironically, the closest you’ll usually find me to this store is somewhere out in the parking lot. And if this ShopRite is the tenth level of Hell, then the parking lot is most certainly the *eleventh.* In fact, being anywhere near this shopping center is like experiencing, first-​hand, the ripping of the time-​space continuum. For once you set foot inside the parking lot, you have crossed into a totally different dimension; a dimension governed only by the dark forces of chaos and entropy. Only perhaps on the busy streets of Shanghai or Delhi will you find this many people and vehicles crammed into so little of a space, all vying for carts and baskets, ready to clear the shelves of every aisle of the store as if a great zombie apocalypse is about to unfold at any given moment. Time is not a factor in this dimension, for this is the state of affairs at any given hour of any given day. And yet, the humans just can’t seem to get enough of the place.
It simply cannot be denied: ShopRite of Spotswood is *THE PLACE* to be.
Now this all might sound like a clever exaggeration — a Brian Williamseque telling of what would otherwise be an unremarkable tale — but I kid you not, this ShopRite has it going on.
What’s funny is that it is an old store; a very old store; only a fraction of the size of a standard World Class ShopRite; sitting on the tiniest of footprints. The ceilings are low. The aisles are narrow. It is nearly impossible to maneuver around other shoppers. Produce is purchased and restocked in real-​time, which is why everything is so incredibly fresh here — much fresher than at other area grocery stores. Nothing sits on the shelves for very long.
The bakery cranks out fresh breads, cookies, and cakes as fast as Willy Wonka produces chocolate bars. And when you bring it home and taste it, you are almost perplexed by how good it is. After all, this is ShopRite for crissakes! Supermarket-​made food is supposed to suck if it’s not a Whole Foods, a Wegmans, or a Publix, right? Well, that may be true for other supermarkets, and perhaps even other ShopRites. But not this ShopRite. Not the ShopRite of Spotswood. There’s something about this particular location sitting directly on the event horizon of a great black hole, swallowing up cars, customers, and even rays of light, that makes it special. Why exactly? We will never know.
So if you’re not prone to panic attacks and don’t have any personal space issues, or you just want to get good quality, fresh food, at decent prices, this is where you should be doing your shopping. There’s more religion going on in ShopRite of Spotswood than in all the churches, temples, and mosques across the county. Just pop a Valium or a Zanax or two before you head over and I promise — you’ll be good to go.

I always thought this ShopRite was so fancy compared to others growing up in the area. I wanna say it was one of the first World Class ones in the area, but don’t quote me on that. The layout, while a little confusing sometimes, is pretty nice & they have a great selection. My most recent trip was during the last minute Thanksgiving shopping rush, and they were pretty good with their selection. Got a little nervous when they ran out of some things, but they were constantly restocking, so it turned out ok. It gets very crowded, as expected during the holidays, but navigating through the aisles wasn’t too bad. They also have great flowers. Definitely worth giving them a shot!

Hands down the best Shoprite in the area. Yeah, the bar is set pretty low, but they have been my family’s lifeblood for the 16 years I’ve been in the area.
They have a great selection, and their bakery cranks out some delicious treats, though it’s often crowded and there are far too many times when you’re lucky to find a parking spot in the distant secondary lot or behind the connected strip mall (with the excellent Taverna and their Top 10 Middlesex County pizza).
What I think separates this location from the others is that you almost never find anything past it’s sell-​by date, though I and my wife have found outdated merch on the shelves at the other two in the area on far too many occasions.
They have updated the store several times since we moved here, and each time they get better. They have a wide selection of produce, and their ethnic offerings are good, too (I was so excited when I saw they started selling bacalao, dried and salted cod).
So I’ve got some serious brand loyalty to my local Shoprite, though they’ve earned it.

I can never find anything here. The best thing about it is the children’s teddy bear mascot is named Scrunchie. How cute + stupid is that?!

I can’t stand how busy this place is. Stop and Shop is down the block on 18 and it is a much less crowded and a much more modern place.

This shoprite is okay, just not the best one in the area. The shoprite in North Brunswick is much newer and nicer, plus has a better variety in some departments. The store had a face lift within the past couple of years and is where I regularly shop, only it is not my favorite place to shop. I love Wegman’s on Rt 9 in Freehold. They are the most amazing supermarket ever!!!

this is not the best place to shop for groceries.
cash registers ring up incorrect prices — checkers want to argue about incorrect pricing.
store is dirty — store needs a good cleaning
produce is junk — no one in this department knows how to handle the produce.
store does not have quite a few of the advertised items and i’ve noticed that sometimes the items on sale are not marked on the shelf prices.
there is absolutely nothing good about this store, other than it being close to me.