ACME opens on 94th Street in OC

While the deeply discounted groceries leading up to the 94th Street Superfresh’s closure last Monday were still able to draw crowds, they were nothing compared to what began the following Friday when the store reopened as an ACME.

Throughout the weekend and into this week the parking lot was, for this time of year, very busy, with dozens of cars filling it for the first time in months — perhaps longer. The ACME is open daily from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Internally, the 33,000-square-foot store is much the same as Superfresh left it, including the staff.

“We hired substantially all of the store-level A&P employees at the stores we acquired,” ACME spokeswoman Danielle D’Elia said.

The stores needed the staff during the recent run on groceries, and even drew some up from the Route 50 location, which was scheduled to close Thursday, to help handle the offseason load. All of the Ocean City area employees, a source speaking on condition of anonymity confided, had been brought into the ACME fold on a probationary basis, meaning their future isn’t yet certain.

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