TOUR: ACME Markets - Westmont, NJ

ACME Markets

Opened: 1960

Previous Tenants: none

Location: 400 W Cuthbert Blvd, Westmont, Haddon Township, NJ

Photographed: January 2021

What is the world's most classic ACME? That was discussed more than a few times over on Acme Style, and I recently posited the suggestion that Main Street in Maple Shade was up for contention. There are a few others that come to mind (Dresher, for instance), but our next two ACMEs, including this one here in Haddon Township, also warrant serious consideration. You can read all about the Westmont ACME's history and see extensive photos from 2013 here, before we begin our look at the store in its present condition. (We'll be heading to Haddonfield tomorrow.)

The exterior is looking a little better than it did at the time of Acme Style's visit with a fresh paint job. As we can see here, the store is not as tiny as we might expect given the store's age (it was expanded several times, as Acme Style details, to its present 35,000 square feet). Remnants of the Colonial Cottage model are visible outside...

Looks like these doors, which were originally the produce receiving doors, are long out of service. Let's head in!

I was pleasantly surprised to see inside that, not only has the store received a Quality Built remodel fairly recently, but that it was a rather extensive one. New flooring throughout the whole store, all new fixtures here in the produce department, and some new shelving/cases in a few places. Interestingly enough, it does not look like the lighting was replaced here, although it may have been since I took these pictures.

Produce is looking really good! I can't tell for sure, but it doesn't look like the layout of this area has significantly changed since Acme Style's visit. Certainly looks a lot better, though.

Looking out from the front corner of the produce department. Very large organic selection here, too, for the store's size -- I assume it's a big seller.

As long as we're up here in the front corner, we may as well check out customer service, which looks to have received new wood paneling. Plus, of course, new self-checkouts next to the counter. We can also get a good look at the curved ceiling in the corner here that Acme Style discusses extensively.

Heading to the back wall of the store, we do have a full deli/hot food counter, and full service butcher and seafood. Very deluxe for a small store.

The new wood-texture flooring continues into the first few grocery aisles, but after that we move into the dark gray tile. The flooring was replaced throughout the whole store.

Notice that the decor is all up on the higher portion of the wall, with not much to look at on the lower section here.

Some frozen meats and then dairy here on the back wall. It looks like these cases were possibly painted in the recent remodel, but all of the freezers were replaced...

One side of 11, both sides of 12, and one side of 13 are frozen, with the other side of 13 being dairy.

Very nice new cases and category markers.

Obligatory aisle 12 shot, with a good look at the curved ceiling over the bakery in this corner. Now on to dairy...

What's that we see on the wall?

That's right, it's the Collingswood ACME! While we didn't see that store, we did check out the Collingswood Food Fair. This store appears to have been located at 759 Haddon Ave from 1939 to 1966. Check out that tower -- low and to the side of the store, not to mention only two-sided and black on white rather than the reverse (see Millville). Perhaps the tower sign was modified because of the small downtown area, rather than a more urban setting. Would this have been on opening day? The store looks so pristine. I also love the script "Acme" in each window. Just for fun, I brought the image into Photoshop so that we can have a nice shot of the Collingswood ACME (which I couldn't find online)...

Beautiful! (With having to adjust for the perspective of my own shot, I did unfortunately crop some parts of the image, but it's still pretty good.)

Enough on that photo, but it's really awesome. Here in the last aisle, we have what appear to be repainted dairy cases but new frozen cases. Unfortunately, the awning Acme Style mentions is gone.

Very substantial in-store bakery in the front corner here.

And here we're looking out from under the curved overhang, for a different perspective. Now for a look at the front-end...

Looking good -- 6 registers plus I believe 5 self checkouts, so this store probably still does a solid business. And don't forget that it outlived both a SuperFresh and the Thriftway that replaced it -- which you can see here. Now that's all for Westmont, and tomorrow we head on to Haddonfield's ACME. Come back to check it out!