New Lighting in Lincroft!

Location: 616 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ

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A few weeks ago  I stopped in the Lincroft store to specifically check on the lighting situation. Had a feeling they had brightened the place up like they've been doing with the converted A&P fresh locations and sure enough they have!

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Spot lights, hood lights, drum lights and lattice all removed in favor of these new lights... the likes of which haven't been seen before on the blog. The bulbs are typical fluorescent tubes but each fixture has two frosted panels that hang down and diffuse the light. I haven't seen anything like it before. It was hard to capture the details in these photos but they're very sharp looking in person.


Lights have been changed around the whole perimeter, in frozen foods and in all aisles that were previously lit with the hood lamps.

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Ceiling fluorescent tubes now extend over the frozen food aisles.

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The new lighting is making a huge difference in Health and Beauty...

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Self-checkouts still going strong here. Not sure why they're surviving in some stores and have been long removed in others. With all the work that was done to the ceiling here, you'd think they would have pulled the self-checkouts too.

Acme "Bell Ringer Award" Clock!

Photo courtesy of Will aka B-More Retail on flickr

Will discovered this very cool clock at an antique store in northern Baltimore County, Maryland. He posted a photo on flickr and asked if anyone knew the meaning behind "Bell Ringer Award". Ben Schumin tool a chance at passing the question along to Acme's facebook page and received a detailed explanation...

"Bell Ringers” was a marketing promotion from the early to mid 1980’s. It combined special weekly price reductions on selected items that were referred to in Acme Ads as “Bellringers” and part of an overall Advertising campaign “Acme Super Savings Time.” It was also tied into the fact that all Acme Markets were given uniform Hours of Operation daily from 7 AM to 11 PM and Sunday 9AM to 6 PM. The “Bellringer” Alarm Clock was an internal recognition award given to Acme associates for achieving various business goals tied to the ad campaign. We hope this is helpful! 
-Rebecca, Customer Support

From ProgressiveGrocer.com...

ACME'S DAN CROCE

TO BE HONORED BY

N.J. FOOD COUNCIL

Exec, team transitioned almost

40 former A&P stores 

For the full article at ProgressiveGrocer.com,

please click here. 

BREAKING NEWS >>>

Kosher Supermarket
Taking Over Former Clifton Acme

Location: 467 Allwood Road, Clifton, NJ

Seasons, a New York based kosher supermarket chain, will be taking over the entire 55,000 square foot former Acme in Clifton. This will be the chain's fifth and largest location. It will also be the company's first New Jersey location. The new store should be open by May. It will be interesting to see if they keep any of Acme's equipment and decor which has been left behind. Acme Style will cover the store once it opens. For more details, click here for an article on northjersey.com. 

Acme is ready for the Polar Bear Plunge inSea Isle City!

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First tour of the Barnegat Acme!

Location: 912 West Bay Avenue, Barnegat, NJ

Interior photos courtesy of Lou

Word is Acme didn't make many changes to the former Genuardis' layout. The signature green ceiling  is still intact.




Plenty of big, bold signage for the organic section in Produce.










Since when are aisle markers used to tell customers to visit other departments rather than listing what's in the aisle? Very bizarre.


Single line leads to several express registers.




Not sure whats going on here. Perhaps a single line for all of the regular registers as well.








The lounge area will become a Starbucks by June.

Sign is up at the Jersey City Acme!

Location: 125 18th St, Jersey City, NJ 

The temporary banner has been replace with official signage. Labelscars covered over with some fresh paint.

For full coverage of the Jersey Ctiy store, please click here. 

More Acme Trucks!

Photos courtesy of trex354

Some new. Some old.


The Acme Is Local logo on the back with a close-up below...

Abandoned Former Acme – Brick, New Jersey

Classic photo courtesy of Patrick Richardson

Location: 1890 Route 88, Brick NJ

Jo-Ann fabrics has checked out of the former Acme in Brick Township. Pictures have been sent in of the empty interior which has remained largely intact since the Acme closed in the early 80's.


Sweeping view of the interior. New flooring and removal of the Meat and Deli back wall are the only major alterations to the interior.


The former Woodstown store was a virtual twin to this location. Below is a photo of the same portion of the store store, which was sporting the 80's Remodel when it closed.


For full coverage of the abandoned Woodstown store, click here.


The Dairy aisle would have run along this wall back in the Acme days. The boxes up on the back wall had been a mystery until I visited this store to cover it for the blog. Discovered that they were simply covers for the air intake vents. The vents were exposed in most 50's stores. You can see an example at the former store in Newton, NJ by clicking here.


A close-up of the air vents that rand along the sides of the store.


The future of the former Acme in Brick is unknown. For full coverage of the store, please click here.

BREAKING NEWS >>>

NEW ACME TRAILERS

HAVE HIT THE ROAD!

Not sure how long these have been around but I saw them for the first time this weekend. Saturday I passed by three on the New Jersey Turnpike. Up until then I had just been seeing the old silver trailers with the red oval logo, which has been pretty surprising since SuperValu had removed the Acme logos from as many trailers as they possibly could. I wasn't able to snap a picture while I was driving so I made a stop at the Lincroft store and look what I found! Couldn't get a shot of the trailer door here but I did get a view of them out on the road. The doors now display the "Acme loves Local" logo. Great seeing updated Acme trucks roaming the highways in North Jersey!

Side note: Lincroft has all new lighting throughout, which I was not a bit surprised to see. What was surprising was the light fixtures themselves. Completely different from anything else I've seen at other stores. Pictures will be coming in the next week or two.