Friday, June 1, 2012
Bryn Mawr Grand Opening Today!
The first new Acme in nearly 4 years opens today! While Acme Style won't be covering the store for another week or two, you can take an extensive look inside thanks to the Haverford-Havertown Patch. The decor package is the same that has been used in recent Acme remodels but certainly looks a bit sharper in this brand new store. The pictures make the store look huge even though it's only 13,000 square feet larger than the tiny store that it replaced. Be sure to take a look at the checkouts! They appear to be angled to increase floor space in the front of the store. Nice to see custom made checkout stand lights instead of those horrible generic ones used for adverting random products. Have to say... this new store is quite impressive looking. To visit the old Bryn Mawr store, please click here.
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Very nice store, other than higher prices. Nice employees,also
ReplyDeleteIt looks quite good.
ReplyDeleteHigh prices? Ever visit Wegman's, or even a Shoprite where there is no compition? Their prices are the same or even a bit higher.
ReplyDeleteWhen the Millville Acme was open, the Shoprite and Walmart kept their prices lower than Acme's. Then AFTER the Acme closed, the Shoprite AND Walmart raised their prices to the point where customers that used to shop at the Millville Acme drove a few miles to the Vineland Acme for a fair price !
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Just wanted to tell you my dad's church was the old connellsville Acme store. It was built in the late forties. It had a tower that went the whole way to the ground front plate glass windows and brick sides and a flat roof. I haven't seen one yet that looked like it.
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed that this store has opened considering the condition parent co. Supervalu is now in... word is official in the trade papers that SV CEO Craig Herkert announced costslashing measures, etc... and would explore the sale of any or all assets. Sounds like the Albertsons debacle all over again. These big corporations bite off far more than they can chew and the end result is they take a strong regional operator like Acme in Philadelphia and kill it from competing in its market because of all the ridiculous corporate policies and pricing, etc...
ReplyDeleteNow there's all these rumors that the high flying Billionaire Burkel is poised to jump in and take over Acme w/ his Yucaipa Cos. and Lord knows what he's going to do with two tumbling chains (A&P and Acme)
What the heck happened to our great American supermarket chains, why are they failing so miserably and why can't they give customers what they want anymore... they need to assess what that is, get out of the "Ivory Towers" and redirect their companies back into profitability; we'll see what happens!
Please keep us posted ACMESTYLE!
I highly suspect that if Acme (the whole chain) does indeed go the way of the dinosaur, the Bryn Mawr store will be taken over by a gourmet chain. The Fresh Market, a Baltimore-DC chain, sounds like a likely candidate. Their stores are smaller than most supermarkets. But the A&P/Super Fresh in Towson MD, a rich suburb of Baltimore, became one of them. The A&P/Super Fresh in Wynnewood, near Bryn Mawr, is very similar to the Towson store though. If it closes, The Fresh Market very well may move there instead. But the closed FoodSource (owned by Clemens, then Giant who bought most of Clemens) next to this Acme is still empty. That building was awfully small for a grocery store though, maybe half the size of the OLD Acme here. Maybe the Acme will become a gourmet store, and the FoodSource can become a clothing store or something else fancy to cater to the Main Line.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I don't get why people were so unhappy about the Safeway takeover of Genuardi's and other regional chains. Sure, Safeway is a "cookie cutter" chain and got rid of Genuardi's uniqueness, but upgraded a lot of stores and added services like Starbucks. But it would have made more sense 10 years ago if Albertsons had bought Genuardi's and Safeway had bought Acme, instead of the opposite mergers which did happen. Acme and Safeway are both very old chains which have had to upgrade dozens of older stores in the past 10 years. Albertsons is also an old name, but I think their finest hour was in the 90's, when they were building "upscale" stores in the South and West, just as Genuardi's was doing in the Philly suburbs. A lot of people have complained about higher prices at both Albertsons and Safeway since both chains got more gourmet. It's also a weird coincidence how around the same time A&P (as Super Fresh) exited the Baltimore-DC area, which Safeway still competes in, but Safeway (as Genuardi's) has exited the Philly area, where A&P/Super Fresh still has a presence.
Gerry Maynes, an Acme employee in Delaware (who has posted on this site before) let me know through the website Groceteria that the 70's Acme in Pike Creek, Wilmington, Delaware is being remodeled. Not sure but I get the feeling that its 70's facade will come down. It's a shame because this store already survived a remodel that was at least 15 if not 20 years ago, when all the light fixtures were modernized.
ReplyDeleteWith the Glassboro store, at least there are two others nearby, in Clayton and Sewell.
ReplyDelete(Sorry, I meant Washington Township, not Sewell. I got the location confused for a moment.)
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