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Whole Foods announced on its Facebook page that their new Morristown store will be opening this Spring. As reported previously on the blog, the store is setting shop in a former A&P which closed in December 2013. You can visit two Bonus Store posts of the A&P by clicking here and here.

For a fascinating look at the gutted A&P, with the barrel roof exposed, click here. 

I hope to cover this store after it opens. I would love to see how Whole Foods configures this very limited space. What I'm not looking forward to is the limited space in the parking lot. This place is going to be an absolute nightmare to get into. Anyone who has been to the Whole Foods in Montclair knows exactly what I am talking about. 

I've heard through the grapevine that Stop and Shop has agreed to move to the portion of the shopping center where the former Kmart currently stands. The Kmart will be torn down and a new Stop and Shop will be built in its place. The rest of the shopping center will be overhauled with additional tenants moving in.

Side note: does anyone know if any North Jersey or Central Jersey Stop and Shops are getting remodeled to Ahold's new look? The package certainly doesn't seem to be sweeping through the chain like it is at both the Giants, although many Stop and Shops have been remodeled in recent years with the purple and yellow fruit bowl package. 

As some of you have noticed, the historic aerial images in posts from a few years ago have disappeared. Back then I posted links to the historic aerial website which would pop images directly into each post. After a year or so, I became concerned that the links might eventually stop working. I switched to posting screen grabs just to be on the safe side. Well... the links have indeed broken and the images are gone. Fortunately I gave up on posting the links when I did but that still a leaves a lot store posts with no historic images. I'm going to start back tracking to replace all of the broken links with screen grabs. I will also be adding historic images to the posts that never had them in the first place. When I get a batch done, I'll post a list for anyone who would like to revisit old posts and see the newly added historic images. 

Something else you may have noticed is a large volume of posts lately. I'm cranking them out as fast as I can in order to burn through a mountain of inventory. This harsh winter is working to Acme Style's advantage by keeping me indoors and on my laptop! The frequent posting schedule will continue for the next month or two and won't follow any rhyme or reason. I will still attempt to post current Acme stores on the blog every other Friday. The usual Tuesday/Friday posting schedule will return in the Spring.