Acme | Swedesboro, NJ

 

1619 Center Square Road

Welcome to the Swedesboro Acme!

Another week, another tour! Today, we will be checking out this Acme in Swedesboro (aka Logan Township, aka Beckett). This store opened in 2002 as an addition to the shopping center. This is one of not many New Jersey Acme locations that was never profiled on Acme Style, so I'm glad to be able to bring it to you here. Inside, the store has the Quality Built decor. However, as the flooring throughout will show you, this was actually one of the very last Acme locations to open with the extravagant "ACME Theme Park" decor, better known as Grocery Palace. Let's take a look inside.

Swedesboro is part of Logan Township, and this is known as the Logan Acme. Also, I believe this is the first time I got a picture of the welcome wall in the Quality Built decor. Usually, there are associates or customers standing in the foyer, but not here.

In the front left corner are sushi and foods to go. It seems this is a store of firsts for the blog, as this is also the first time we're seeing "Sushi" signage in an ACME.

The corner deli is next, in between prepared foods and the bakery. As you can see here and elsewhere in the store, there were "Price Lock" banners hanging throughout the store. ShopRite's done similar locked-in price campaigns before, most recently this past winter when it was promoted with an absolutely unbearable commercial. It had the guy who's not a mathematician (he just loves groceries) walking around the store yelling "Locked in prices!" and knocking on the freezers going "Lock lock!". Acme has been much more subtle. Anyway, I'm veering off topic... 

The fresh bakery is next, although no bakers are ready to service you. I've noticed this issue at many Acme stores recently. At least Acme usually has good-quality bakery items.

Pre-packaged baked goods as well as fresh baked breads are in the back left corner past the service bakery. Interestingly, there are two "This Is Your ACME" signs, with one here and the other on the front wall next to foods to go.

Produce takes up the rest of this area in the store. I've always wondered why Quality Built stores with free standing produce sections like this don't have produce market signage. The original iteration of this decor (as seen in Devon) had the sign over the cases. There's the other "This Is Your ACME" in the second photo.

Fresh seafood and Lancaster Brand Meats are in the left corner along the back wall. No shortage of locked-in prices here!

Packaged meats follow service meat and seafood. I've always found it funny how the signage here says "GUARANTEED". What are they guaranteeing? That it's Lancaster Brand?

A look down aisle 4, towards the front end. We've seen these Quality Built aisle markers a million times on the blog before.

Frozen meats and poultry are next, just past the entrance to the backroom.

Frozen foods are across from "The Freshest Food GUARANTEED" in aisle 9. Those patterns in the floor are from the past decor package: Grocery Palace, better known as ACME Theme Park! While relatively common in other Albertsons divisions, specifically Albertsons itself, it was pretty rare to see in Acme stores even back while it was still actively being implemented. Today, the only Acme stores to still have it are the Yardville and Milltown stores, both also in New Jersey. Unfortunately, I can't find any photos of this store with that look online.

Dairy starts in the back right corner and wraps around to the far right wall. It's too bad there's no huge barn over the dairy department like Grocery Palace had.

The pharmacy is in the front left corner. The pink tiled flooring is also left over from the Grocery Palace look (as seen here in Yardville).

Fresh flowers and the checkouts are along the front. Maybe one day we'll see a store that has the checkouts on the back wall, and I'll have a reason for clarifying that they're along the front every time.

This store has a Starbucks inside across from the checkout lanes (which are along the front, by the way). Not many non-Project Azalea Acme stores have a Starbucks inside. They put them into a lot of stores in the late 90's, but eventually took them out of most stores during the SuperValu days.

There was a customer service sign hanging in front of the exit, but I couldn't figure out where it actually was.

Sav-On lives on the pylon sign!

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I'm not sure why the Acme sign is mounted so low. It was like that even when it shared the space with the Sav-On signage.

Nearby competition

2.9 miles away: ShopRite of Woolwich

This ShopRite opened only a few weeks ago. Until then, the Acme was the only supermarket in town. I imagine the ShopRite will be much busier, even after the grand opening celebrations end. We checked out the ShopRite last week, and you can see the post here.

That's going to do it for this post! What did you think of the Swedesboro Acme? I found it to be a very nice, clean, and well-stocked store. However, the ShopRite is hard to beat with its lower prices, greater amenities, and even better styling. I will say it was really cool to see the Grocery Palace flooring in person. That's probably the closest I'll ever get to seeing it, unless I can make it out to Yardville! Anyway, thanks for shopping, and see you next week. Sincerely, The Retail Connection.