The Market Report

ACME Markets Opened: 2012, older store (1956-2011) on same property Previous Tenants:  none Location:  601 W Lancaster Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA Photographed:  December 2021 The Bryn Mawr ACME comes to The Market Report! Acme Style has reported extensively on this store, first visiting the older store that stood on the same property back in 2011 and then returning to the newly built store right after its opening in 2012 . I would strongly recommend you read those two posts (or re-read them, if you already have) before moving on to checking out the store today. I'm not going to describe the layout because Acme Style has some excellent, and pretty accurate, floor plans in their post. The layout hasn't really changed in the past few years -- except for a few minor changes we'll see. Here's the view upon entering, with new flooring and fixtures installed in a sad excuse for a Quality Built remodel. I must say that Acme Style wrote a rather glowing review of this store ten years

Original Tenant: A&P Address: 755 W Lancaster Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA Opened:  1950s Closed:  1970s Later Tenants:  Staples (1990s- ) Photographed:  December 2021 Our first of two stops in Bryn Mawr, PA (right between Haverford College to the southeast and Villanova University to the northwest) is this 1950s-era A&P. It's a fascinating store, not least because it's been only minimally modified in the last 50 years. It was built in the 50s as a flat-front , streetfront store of roughly 12,000 square feet -- not to mention hiding a very slight arched roof back there. In the late 50s or early 60s, it was retrofitted into an approximation of the centennial store model, which we just saw yesterday at Gladwyne -- albeit extensively remodeled. As we notice, the centennial front is very clearly just a facade here, and consequently it is abnormally thin. It's also overly simple, compared to the ornate full-fledged centennial . And finally, we know it's an earlier store bec

Original Tenant: A&P Address: 1025 Youngs Ford Rd, Gladwyne, PA Opened:  1960s Closed:  1983 Later Tenants:  SuperFresh (1983-2015) > ACME Markets (2015-2019) Photographed:  December 2021 Gladwyne, PA is currently without a supermarket, since its ACME Markets location closed in February of 2019. Although the community lost its roughly 25,000 square foot ACME, its tiny but remarkable 1400 square foot Gladwyne Market House is still going strong just across the street. But wait, let's back up and review the history of this location. From the history I can piece together, this store opened in the 1960s as an A&P Centennial store at roughly 15,000 square feet. At some point thereafter, probably in the 1970s, it was expanded again by around 6,000 square feet. It looks like at the same time, an additional 2,000 square foot storefront (presumably a bank) was constructed out of the expansion, but was not part of the supermarket. I assume the store received the standard 1970s

The Gladwyne Market Owner: Renee Riccio Opened:  2009 under current ownership, early 1900s previously Cooperative:  none Location:  359 Righters Mill Rd, Gladwyne, PA Photographed:  December 2021 We start our look at Pennsylvania with this unique store, in the small town of Gladwyne about nine miles northwest of Center City Philadelphia. As we might expect from the name on the front, The Gladwyne Market House (referred to now as simply the Gladwyne Market most places) is, well, a market in a house. In fact, the Gladwyne Market takes up about 1400 square feet of the ground floor of this house, in what seems to be a very historically-preserved location. This store has continuously operated as a grocery store for over 100 years, but in 2009, it was acquired by the owners of The Market of Lafayette Hill about three and a half miles north. Gladwyne is a community of 4000 with a median household income of around $160,000, so this store is naturally both very small and very high-end. It appe

It's time to enter Pennsylvania! If you got a little bored with my coverage of the mid-Atlantic region (and, I'll admit, there were a fair number of pretty boring stores and bad drive-by pictures, especially in Norfolk), now is the time to tune back in. We are back, just west of New Jersey, in the Philadelphia area! We're going to begin our coverage in the eastern part of the Main Line, a stretch of Philadelphia suburbs along US-30, which is the Lincoln Highway. In that area, we'll make stops in Gladwyne, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood, and Narberth before entering the Philadelphia city limits for a look at stores around Carroll Park, Cathedral Park, and University City. My coverage of Philadelphia is not quite as dense as northern New Jersey nor northeastern Pennsylvania, but it's pretty solid, and we certainly have quite a few interesting stops as we move through the area from south to north, roughly. We begin with a look at a very small independent grocer in Gladwyne here

It's time to enter Pennsylvania! If you got a little bored with my coverage of the mid-Atlantic region (and, I'll admit, there were a fair number of pretty boring stores and bad drive-by pictures, especially in Norfolk), now is the time to tune back in. We are back, just west of New Jersey, in the Philadelphia area! We're going to begin our coverage in the eastern part of the Main Line, a stretch of Philadelphia suburbs along US-30, which is the Lincoln Highway. In that area, we'll make stops in Gladwyne, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood, and Narberth before entering the Philadelphia city limits for a look at stores around Carroll Park, Cathedral Park, and University City. My coverage of Philadelphia is not quite as dense as northern New Jersey nor northeastern Pennsylvania, but it's pretty solid, and we certainly have quite a few interesting stops as we move through the area from south to north, roughly. We begin with a look at a very small independent grocer in Gladwyne over

MOM's Organic Market Opened: 2006, expanded 2019 Owner:  Scott Nash Previous Tenants:  unknown Location:  7351 Assateague Dr, Jessup, MD Photographed:  June 2021 Contributor:  Luke P. Welcome to Baltimore, almost! We're about 12 miles southwest of the city in Jessup to visit the MOM's Organic Market at Columbia East Marketplace. We've seen a few of their stores, and toured the Cherry Hill location . This looks like a fairly large MOM's store, especially since the website mentions it was expanded in 2019. By the way, here's what the outside looks like. As we saw in Cherry Hill, the store is extremely spacious with wide concourses between all the aisles. Above, I believe we're looking across the back wall of the store, and in the first shot we're looking towards the back from the front of the store. Looks like the expansion also involved replacing most of the fixtures around the store, since they all look pretty new. MOM's, of course, gained its popu