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TOUR: ACME Markets - Sussex, NJ

ACME Markets Opened: 2015 Previous Tenants:  A&P (1960s-2015), expanded around 2000 Location:  455 NJ-23 N, Sussex, NJ Photographed:  December 2020 We arrive in Sussex Township's only supermarket, the ACME (formerly A&P) in an unnamed strip mall at route 23 and Lower Unionville Road. The store was built in the 1960s as a centennial model A&P, the expanded out both sides to its current 46,000 square feet around 2000. I assume that, if it was not already closed by then, that expansion put the Foodtown down 23 out of business. Today, Farmer Joen and Sussex Meat Packing take up a combined 25,000 square feet of that strip mall. The grand aisle and HABA department is located in the expansion, with prepared foods and deli lining the right side of the store. ACME had yet to renovate this store and I am fairly certain they are preparing to close, not renovate, when the ShopRite opens all of 900 feet away. (It's also possible that a more extensive renovation is plan...