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TOUR: ACME Markets - Mahwah, NJ

ACME Markets Opened: 2015 Previous Tenants:  A&P Location:  125 Franklin Tpk, Mahwah, NJ Photographed:  December 2020 About six miles to the east of the Stop & Shop we saw yesterday, we find a very different store here in Mahwah. In fact, one of the reasons the areas are probably pretty different is that there's a very large reservation between them with no road to get from Ringwood to Mahwah unless you circle way to the south or up north through Sloatsburg, NY. This 53,000 square foot store is a 1990s-era A&P that was just five miles from their home base in Montvale, meaning it was one of their top stores. And while their flagship, Park Ridge, was also taken over by ACME in 2015, it closed just a few years later and is a LIDL. Mahwah is the complete opposite -- my visit showed one of the busiest ACMEs I've ever been to, that has clearly been upgraded by both A&P and ACME. As we'll see, there is some wear and tear on the store but that's almost definit...