15 Avalon Blvd.
Welcome to the Avalon Acme!
Today, The Retail Connection is down the shore to take a tour of the Avalon Acme! This store opened in the mid-2000's as the only supermarket in Avalon. It was the planned anchor to a shopping center, although the Acme is the only store that ever materialized. This Acme is very special for its interior décor, which we'll see in just a moment. Let's get this tour going!
Frozen foods for the deli and bakery are in the front of this store, when you first walk in.
If you didn't already notice, this store maintains the Santa Fe (or "Albertsons Marketplace", as Acme Style coined it) interior décor it opened with! In the 2000's, this was probably the most common look for Acme stores, but as of now only a few implementations of it remain.
The oven fresh bakery is just past the deli. There is a service bakery, but it's being blocked by a produce display in this photo.
I found this produce aisle marker kind of interesting. It doesn't actually list any products, instead promoting the various departments in this store (including the photo center, which does not exist anymore).
This store has a pretty decently-sized produce department. Jersey Shore Acmes usually have beach items scattered throughout the store, like how you see chairs atop the shelves here.
Seafood and meats is in the back left corner. This department was usually configured as "Meats & Seafood", so I'm not sure why it's the other way around here. Most of the S in Meats has fallen off.
Lancaster Meats follow. Lancaster has been Acme's house brand for packaged meat products for many years.
And just past that, we find fresh, wholesome dairy. Also in view are public restrooms and boogie boards.
A look down aisle 8, with paper products and other general merchandise. This store still has its original Albertsons Marketplace aisle markers; many stores got PF&H aisle markers, even if they didn't get a full remodel.
Frozen foods in aisle 11.
Dairy and frozen share aisle 12, the last aisle in the store. This aisle marker is asking you to visit the deli and floral departments.
The customer service center is in the front left corner. This Acme doesn't have a pharmacy or a bank, likely because most of their business is during the summer time.
Six checkout lanes along the front end. Thank you for shopping Acme.
This sign was obviously designed to include other tenants, although as I said in the beginning of this post, Acme is the lone store. They chose to use the other slots to promote Lancaster brand beef, fresh lump crab cakes, classic hoagies, and boneless sirloin steaks.
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2019
I don't think any cosmetic changes have been made to this store during its lifetime. The store looked like this in the 2008 shot, too.
That's all I wrote! I imagine the Santa Fe décor's days are numbered at this location, so I'm glad I was able to capture it before it's inevitably remodeled to Quality Built. Thanks for shopping with The Retail Connection! Sincerely, The Retail Connection.
I've seen the reversed wording thing at Kroger before, too -- if it's in the back right corner, it will read Meat & Seafood, but if it's in the back left, it will read Seafood & Meat. Kinda weird, but I think it's also just based on the placement of the items (with meat being along the back wall, so the word Meat is closer to that). It's also good that, of all letters, the S in Meats is the one that fell off, as the sign still works perfectly well without it! Interesting to see the handmade additions to the road sign, too...
ReplyDeleteThat's strange. I wonder if that's the case here. The department was in the back left here. Maybe Acme follows the same rules as Kroger. And yeah, it's definitely good that the least important letter fell off! Part of the "DELI" signage is broken, too, making the "E" look like a weird, upside-down "F". Thanks for commenting!
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