The Food Emporium on Elm Street in New Canaan is among the 120 A&P supermarket chain stores that its parent company, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, intends to sell following a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on Monday, company officials said.
The Food Emporium in New Canaan is among the 120 A&P supermarket chain stores that are slated to be sold, company officials have confirmed. Credit: Michael Dinan
“The [New Canaan] store is part of the sale process,” the company’s human resources director of communication and training, Dana Regan, told NewCanaanite.com in an email. “This process will take months to complete. During this time, the store will remain open and supplied.”
According to a post on the company’s website, most customers will experience no impact on their shopping experience.
“While some stores will close in the near-term, the vast majority will continue providing customers with the same high-quality products and exceptional customer service,” A&P’s bulletin said. “We will also continue to honor all existing customer promotional and loyalty programs.”
According to A&P’s website, Food Emporium in New Canaan is under an asset purchase agreement with Acme Markets Inc.
Yikes. We should get Balducci’s to open in New Canaan. A splendid win instead.
I have always found this store be filthy and poorly run. The smell alone should prevent you from shopping there. I do hope we get a great market!
I worked at this store for 18 years. This store was well run and very clean when Joe was the manager. After he was transferred this store went down hill. Was sad to watch.
Isn’t Acme the store that provides Warner Brothers with their props
Acme, which got its start as a neighborhood grocer in South Philadelphia in 1891, has struggled mightily in recent years and changed ownership during this period. Albertsons, the nation’s second-largest supermarket chain, bought Acme in 2013 and now seems intent on reviving it.
I’ve been to many Alberton’s Supermarkets in Texas. They are well stocked, have great produce and meat, quality cold cuts and prepared food, and each store looked clean and great to me. If we end up with an Albertson’s close to or better than what they have in the Austin area, count me as your first customer. I believe this is the store that sells delicious and hot freshly made tortillas. I hope they offer those in New Canaan also. This could be great for our town and a good healthy alternative supermarket to be in between and to compliment the more specialty stores like Walter Stewart’s and Mrs. Greens. I hope the naysayers do their homework before complaining. This store could be a game changer! I’m totally for it.