Tour: A&P - Hackettstown, New Jersey

Just off of US-46, a shady little plaza shows the A&P in Hackettstown, New Jersey... one of the only options for locals up until 2015, when the store closed with the chain. I visited this store back in July 2018, and it was in terrible condition. I'm hoping to contact the Real Estate agent to get better pictures of this A&P, along with many others, in North Jersey.

This store opened in March 2000 with a sister store in Mansfield Commons, which lasted only two years. Kohl's quickly moved in and removed all A&P aspects of the building. As far as I can tell from aerial views, it was identical to the Hackettstown location we will be covering today.

For reference, technically, this store is in Hackettstown. A&P referred to it as the Budd Lake store. The center recognized it as the Mount Olive store. I'll just add all three to the directory!
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A fresh build for the 2000's. Not so fresh anymore, unfortunately.

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No more cart corrals. Many A&P locations have had theirs left behind. 

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Butcher's paper covered up most of the windows. Fortunately, the side entrances weren't.

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Pharmacy... Closed. Entrances... Closed.

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Not a bad A&P sign! This sure lasted long.

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Unfortunately not the paint job. The paint is almost peeling off of the building.

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This was in 2015. Nothing has left this location, as far as I can tell.

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Trashed vestibule.

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Customer Service is just over the window here.

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Stained papers... too bad they didn't fall down! Wasn't able to get shots of this end.

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Express Yourself self-checkouts from the Fresh era, but no kiosks... 

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Long-belt self-checkouts with the original 90's lights! All shelving and decor are still in this store. It's incredible that I came at such a great time when the lights were on. 

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"Food Market" Circle in the back... anyone notice anything? "Food Emporium" font! This was obviously the later rendition of the Foodmarket decor, before the 00's Calligraphy days. If I could ever get in this store (by Real Estate Agent), I'd definitely strip this store of every single last price tag and whatever is in the backrooms... possibly old training video tapes. I'd love to get some up on YouTube someday!

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Delivery Bays in the back. There is an angled one on the other side.  Unfortunately all the doors were locked... but there was a landscaping company that had opened one of the doors (I saw them through the front)... too bad they were already gone by time I reached the back.

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Pylon sign on US-46. My guess is that this A&P will be abandoned for a long time...

(Side note: I took this picture from my car at the other entrance... my Galaxy S9 is working great with these photos. Unfortunately that wasn't the case with my older posts... Galaxy S5 was not good with image stabilization, and Droid Mini was even worse with the Clinton store)

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Next stop: anywhere! (I actually visited several A&Ps in my trip here... but not the Sparta store. Cars backed up the exit! It was a very busy day in the middle of July)

A&P of Mount Olive

7 Naughtright Road
Hackettstown, NJ

A&P > National Fitness Center (Proposed)