The Market Report

The Market of Point Pleasant Beach Opened: July 10, 2026 Owner: Adam Shapiro Previous Tenants:  ACME Markets (1940s-ca. 1960s) > Foodtown (ca. 1960s-2011) > Stop & Shop (2011-2024) Cooperative: Associated Supermarket Group Location: 505 Richmond Ave, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ Photographed: July 16, 2026 Let's get one thing straight before we tour this new store at the Jersey Shore: It's 2026, not 1972. Right? Right. Okay. Keep that in mind. So here we are in Point Pleasant Beach! It's a shore town, about halfway between Asbury Park and Seaside Heights, and home to Jenkinson's Boardwalk , which you might've heard of. It's also home to this supermarket, which faithfully served the town's business district as the only grocer for decades. It was an ACME starting around the 1940s, becoming a Foodtown about 20 or 30 years later. By the 1970s, it was a Norkus Foodtown, which sold all their stores to Stop & Shop in 2011. Stop & Shop then closed...

ACME Markets Opened: 1979 Owner:  Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants: Food Fair Cooperative: none Location: 6601 Roosevelt Blvd, Philadelphia, PA Photographed: April 1, 2026 It's time to return to the ACME on Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia's Mayfair section, which we last saw in progress last year . The renovation has finished at the 50,000 square foot supermarket, and contrary to what I expected when I first posted it, the decor has in fact been changed to the latest ACME decor package. I've tried to line up the pictures as well as possible for a direct before and after, so let's check out what's changed! The biggest change was taking out the first two grocery aisles to move an expanded wine and beer section to this location (previously, it was on the front wall to the right of the floral department above). I captured that transition last year... ...and it's now complete, with the new Frosted Mug department taking up what used to be aisles 1 and 2....