ACME Markets
Opened: 2015
Welcome to a New York ACME! You don't think of New York when you think of ACME, but there are 16 stores here in New York state in Westchester and Putnam Counties, directly north of New York City. They're all stores acquired from A&P in 2015. Here in Bronxville, this store is about two and a half miles north of the northern edge of New York City. This ACME is around 32,000 square feet (with storage in the basement), right in downtown Bronxville, a small town of 6400 people in under a square mile. The supermarket was built in the late 70s or early 80s by Shopwell, which later rebranded to The Food Emporium and was subsequently acquired by A&P in 1986. At some point, this location was rebranded A&P, the banner it kept until A&P's bankruptcy in 2015. The building is currently for sale, but ACME's lease goes through 2043.
Inside, this is one of only three New York stores to retain the A&P decor. The other 13 have received renovations, some quite extensive (Yonkers, for instance, closed briefly for construction). Shrub Oak and Goldens Bridge, as far as I can tell, still have A&P decor inside. But in the northeast, Albertsons has been doing renovations seemingly as quickly as they can. Shaw's has at least one or two grand reopenings every month, but ACME doesn't announce their renovations the same way, so it's harder to tell when they've redone a store. Here in Bronxville, I only found out a renovation was underway by visiting and noticing the parking lot closed for construction equipment. Inside, work is definitely in progress, but for now, the A&P decor remains. I assume it'll be gone within a couple weeks.
The store is quite small, with a sales floor of just 20,000 square feet. (There are smaller ACMEs in this area, though, including nearby New Rochelle which totals just 17,000 square feet, or White Plains, which is 20,000 square feet all told). Bakery is in the front-right corner, with deli on the right-side wall. Produce and service meat/seafood are in the back-right corner, with packaged meats lining the rest of the back wall. Dairy and frozen are on the left side.
The remodel looks to be rather extensive here, although we'll see what happens to the decor. A lot of new fixtures have gone in, including this deli case. More refrigeration was in the process of being replaced when I visited.
Notice that some department names have been removed from the walls. This used to be "DELI" and "Good Food to Go".
There was previously a salad bar and an olive bar here, both of which seem to have been killed during the coronavirus. These refrigerators, as we can see, are new and not fully up and running yet. I have to assume the flooring will be replaced, given the condition at this point with the work.
New produce cases, too, and the lighting has been replaced.
It looks like an aisle may have been removed here to make way for the expanded produce department. See here.
The meat and seafood counter has been rearranged, too, with all-new fixtures. Pictures of this area prior to the renovation are limited, but it looks like there may have been a small meat window on the back wall, and the seafood counter may have been farther to the right (in the picture below) and farther back.
New meat cases have been installed on the back wall, but we can see the A&P decor still remains, at least for now.
The grocery aisles look pretty standard, and it doesn't look like anything has changed or will change (although maybe the flooring will be updated).
Older freezer cases, and it's hard to tell whether they're planning to replace them.
Dairy and beer in the last aisle, though, are in brand-new cases.
And this front corner was a bit of a mystery to me. It looks like the customer service counter may have been here previously, and something else was being installed (or else just temporarily placed here), but it beats me what that might be.
And a look across the front-end.
Opened: 2015
Owner: Albertsons Companies
Previous Tenants: Shopwell > The Food Emporium > A&P
Cooperative: none
Location: 12 Cedar St, Bronxville, NY
Photographed: January 24, 2025
It'll be interesting to see what happens to this store -- and even what decor package it'll receive, because most ACMEs receive this decor, but smaller and city stores seem to get this one. Don't miss the other posts for this weekend, too -- including another ACME renovation -- but be aware that the last four links won't work until tomorrow.
Very cool exterior! I don't believe I've checked out this store before. ACME really excels at running these small locations and makes the absolute best out of them when they do a remodel.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens here.
DeleteDon't forget Dutchess County as well (Pleasant Valley and Hopewell Junction anyway).
ReplyDeleteYou're right! Thought those were Putnam.
DeleteNot an issue - I had to look to be sure they were the only two. The next one is just barely into Putnam County over on 22 (like within a mile or two of the line).
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