The Market Report

Whole Foods Market Opened: 2002 P revious Tenants:  ACME Markets (1959-1997) > Fresh Fields (1997-2002) Location:  1575 The Fairway, Jenkintown, PA Photographed:  July 22, 2021 We are here in Jenkintown, about 10 miles northeast of center city Philadelphia, for a look at one of the best reuses of a pitched-roof ACME ever. According to JoshAustin610 , this was a very early pitched-roof store opening in 1959, and its original size was around 17,000 square feet. The store has been expanded out almost every direction for a current total of around 42,000 square feet -- or just about the size of many Whole Foods stores today. We can see that, although Whole Foods has modernized the facade (or maybe that was Fresh Fields in their brief time here, before the stores were acquired by Whole Foods in 2002), the bones of the pitched-roof are very much present and visible. The door we see here is the exit, and the main entrance to the supermarket is on the far right side in an expa...

Today's Snapshot is a really interesting store. It started out as a Food Fair that closed by the 1970s and became a Consumer's Distributing catalog store until the early 90s, when it became a Fresh Fields natural food store. Whole Foods bought out the chain later, and it became one of their smaller stores then. Thanks to Josh Austin and Styertowne over on Flickr for the info ! I love the look of pretty much any supermarket built in the 1950s. This one is no exception! The store really fits in to downtown Montclair, although it is on the west end of the town. Many 1950s supermarkets were located way outside of the downtown areas, so that's a little unusual. The store is located at 701 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair, NJ. Photographed September and November 2016