The Market Report

ACME Markets Opened: 1997 Previous Tenants:  Lord & Taylor (closed by 1997) Location:  323 Old York Rd, Jenkintown, PA Photographed:  July 30, 2021 It's time for our final store in the Lower Montgomery county area! Yesterday we saw the Whole Foods in Jenkintown, and that store was an ACME until 1997. At that time, they moved into part of a former Lord & Taylor store about a mile and a half away. This has to be one of the larger ACMEs, too, at over 70,000 square feet (roughly 78,000 to be exact). Acme Style had a wonderful post on this store, but that seems to have vanished with all traces of Acme Style. In case the blog ever comes back, though, here's the link . Acme Style points out that the former entrance for the department store, seen here, is not the main entrance to the supermarket anymore. The main entrance is just to the right . This is actually the back of the building, and the front (facing the street) has no entrances. This store is about the same era...

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...