The president of a food workers union has said that employees at four South Jersey grocery stores owned by A&P will keep their jobs after Acme buys the stores.
The news affects 509 workers whose jobs were at risk after A&P went bankrupt in July, the Press of Atlantic City wrote.
A&P is selling or shutting down all of its stores, which include Super Fresh, Food Basics and Pathmark.
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Acme plans to buy 76 of those stores across the Eastern seaboard, including four in South Jersey: the Pathmark in Ventnor and the Super Fresh stores in North Wildwood, Ocean City and Manahawkin. It said that it will try to re-hire a significant number of former employees.
“Acme will take over these and we believe it will be a seamless transition. All our members will continue to work” in the South Jersey stores, union president Brian String told the paper.