Westwood Residents Among Honorees at Supermarket Anniversary

Inserra Supermarkets, the company which owns 22 ShopRite stores around the area, thanked more than 400 of its long-time employees at a ceremony in the Sheraton Mahwah Hotel recently. Several Westwood residents were among those honored.

The company thanked Peter Metz (30 years), Donald Collina (25 years), Eleazar Cruz, Manuel Gonzalez-Ramos, Jorge Gil, Charlene Mautz (10 years), Krystle Hill and Janet Hurd (five years).

“Even though the supermarket business is much different than it was when we opened our first store in Lyndhurst almost six decades ago, our associates continue to make the communities in which our stores are located a better place to shop, work and live,” President and CEO Lawrence Inserra, Jr., said in a press release.

Inserra Supermarkets was started in 1954 by Patsy Inserra. Today they own ShopRite stores in Bayonne, Columbia Park, Emerson, Fair Lawn, Hackensack, Hillsdale, Hoboken, Jersey City, Lodi, Lyndhurst, New Milford, Northvale, Palisades Park, Passaic, Ramsey, Wayne and West Milford as well as several in Rockland County, N.Y.