Well, it might not feel like spring around here yet, but it is time for me to take a little break from blogging. Acme Style will resume regular Friday posts beginning again on May 6th. I'll be spending the next month doing a lot of behind the scenes planning and preparations for our adventures to come. I apologize to those who eagerly await their Acme fix every Friday morning. Things will be back up and running before you know it. Until then, I will be enjoying a bit of rest from blogging. Should any breaking news occur between now and then, I will post the information.
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Enjoy your break Acme Style. I'm looking foward to what's in store when you return.
ReplyDeleteHope you are enjoying your break. This mornings Courier Post (4-29-11) front page is very interesting!!!! It says that Acme will lay off 900 part time employees in may in order to help lower or keep food prices low. Wow, what a hit to these workers. I hope this will not be a long lay off. This is the time of season when new hires are very much needed in the food business.
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I am working on a list of most unique Acmes ever. Number one just might have to be the one in Mantua, NJ which was planned to be a Safeway. In the early 70's the collapse of A&P/Food Fair/Penn Fruit and even Acme to an extent had already started, and Safeway wanted to capitalize on that. The store was identical to a couple Safeways in Texas which opened between 1970 and 1974. In 1988, the stores closed and reopened as "AppleTree Markets", but AppleTree shut down in 1993. AppleTree was to Safeway as Thriftway was to Acme/A&P orphan stores. Safeway is my all time favorite grocery chain because of how upscale they have become. Newer Acme/A&P/Super Fresh stores all look cheap to me. And I admit even in the 50's 60's and 70's they seemed tacky. Look at how many of these stores were easily carved up into dollar stores, Save-A-Lot, etc.
ReplyDeleteWhat I also find bizarre is how A&P/Super Fresh gets a virtual monopoly on richer towns like the Philadelphia Main Line. Just imagine if A&P catering had been ordered 6 months ago for yesterday's Royal Wedding. And they should just give the rights to "urban renewal" supermarkets to Thriftway, since the A&P/Super Fresh at Progress Plaza in North Philadelphia failed.
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