The Market Report

ACME Markets Opened: 2015 Previous Tenants:  A&P (2010-2015) Location:  1260 Springfield Ave, New Providence, NJ Photographed:  February and June 2021 Our first store of the Great Swamp area is a snowy return to the ACME in New Providence, built in 2010 as an A&P on the site of a closed 1970s-era ACME, and acquired in 2015 by ACME. I did an extensive tour of the very nice if extremely bland store in February 2019 here , and an unexpected return back in February aligned nicely with an unexpected remodel beginning. ACME replaced the flooring and many of the fixtures here in the produce department, as we see. The tiny cafe and prepared foods department at the back of the produce department had been removed for more produce, and the deli was cut back in size (though mostly to remove unused prepared foods counters that A&P installed but never really used). The salad bar was moved from the left side, in line with the grocery shelving, out onto the sales floor, thou...

We're back in New Providence again for this week's first store tour! A week ago, we saw the Central Farmers Market in town in half of a former A&P. As you'll recall from reading Acme Style, the A&P moved to the Village Shopping Center in downtown New Providence in 2010, A&P's last new-build store. It was, of course, a former 1970s-era ACME, so it was rather ironic when ACME returned to the location in A&P's beautiful, brand-new facility back in 2015. Here's my previous nighttime picture. I went back during the day and got some more exterior pictures, as well as a full interior tour. These photos are from my visit in April 2018. The new store's entrance and exit are located here on the corner, but the original ACME building faced the "front" of the store, which is to the left in the above photo. This facade is a little too blank for me. I'd like to see some tasteful department signage on the lower brick panel, li...