ACME Markets
Opened: November 2015
It's gonna be a big weekend, everyone! Today and tomorrow, The Market Report visits three new stores and revisits seven others, so there's plenty to see. Let's begin with a look at the ACME in Goldens Bridge, NY, a small town in Westchester County not far from the Connecticut border.
My 2021 photos that I've posted previously showed the store with its A&P decor still very much intact, but earlier this year, ACME completed a full renovation of the store that included a small expansion into a neighboring storefront, to the store's current 20,000 square feet or so.
You enter on the left side of the store and, in a very old-school layout original to the centennial-era A&P, walk across the front of the store to the produce department on the right side.
New decor, flooring, and fixtures greet us in this remodel, and while it's a shame this store didn't receive the newer ACME decor (this decor has been in use since around 2015 at ACME), it's not to say the work wasn't thorough.
The store is still small and feels small, but it's gotten slightly larger with a new expansion out the right side that houses dairy and frozen, adding two aisles. Frozen is also in the first aisle of the original supermarket here, where dairy used to be. Beer and a relocated meat/seafood department are on the back wall where the rest of dairy and some frozen used to be, and an expanded deli-bakery department takes up the space of the former meat and seafood department in the last aisle.
There are two pass-throughs to the dairy/frozen expansion from the first aisle, and you can see one above.
The ceiling is lower in the expansion, which is also home to the new Drive Up & Go department on the front wall.
All of these fixtures are new, as you can tell.
Speaking of that, even though the store doesn't look all that exciting (and if you ask me, there's a missed opportunity as far as being able to install the newer, more interesting decor), the work was still extensive. In addition to the new expansion and relocated departments in the original supermarket, the store got all new fixtures throughout and new flooring throughout.
Beer is now located in the back-right corner of the store. I'm not sure where it previously was, but I think it may have been moved out of a grocery aisle.
A look across the back wall with packaged meat and seafood. No service meat or seafood here, though there wasn't previously a service counter either.
Here in the last aisle (which they consider aisle 1) is the largest change. With the meat and seafood moved to the back wall of the store, the bakery has been shifted over towards the back of the store into the former meat department. The former butcher/seafood window, which didn't appear to be in use when I visited previously, is now home to an expanded cheese department, with packaged prepared foods in islands opposite that. There's no longer a service bakery department, if I remember correctly, and the deli department takes up the space previously occupied by the bakery.
This bump-out on the wall to the right below is where the very tiny seafood department used to be.
And the deli now wraps around the corner into the former bakery space, which was under the ACME logo to the right. Interesting that they're still using the football-shaped logo, as that's something that hasn't made it into a lot of the later Quality Built remodels.
Floral is in an island at the front of the grocery aisles, and it seems it's moved into space previously occupied by the frozen foods department from a much smaller island near produce.
Owner: Albertsons Companies
Previous Tenants: A&P (1960s-2015)
Cooperative: none
Location: 100 NY-22, Goldens Bridge, NY
Photographed: October 9, 2025
Always nice to see money going into these older and smaller stores, so I'm glad this store was finally able to get a full remodel. Don't miss the rest of this weekend's posts here!
Saturday
You say football-shaped, I would say it's a variation of the old ACME fish logo.
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