Amendment No. 3 to Form S-1 Table of Contents RECENT DEVELOPMENTS A&P Transaction On July 19, 2015. we entered into an asset purchase agreement, pursuant to which our wholly owned subsidiary, Acme Markets, Inc. (-Acme Markets") agreed to acquire 76 stores operated by A&P pursuant to Section 363 of Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. We have exercised our right to exclude certain stores from our purchase and, as a result, we will purchase 71 stores. We have also proposed to acquire an additional store (subject to higher or better bids). The purchase price for the 71 stores is approximately $319 million, including the cost of acquired inventory. In addition, we will assume certain operating leases with a gross lease obligation of 5323 million. The acquired stores, which are principally located in the northern New York City suburbs, northern New Jersey and the greater Philadelphia area, are complementary to Acme Markets existing store and distribution base and will be re-bannered as Acme stores. The 71 stores had sales of $1.45 billion during A&P's last fiscal year ended April 30, 2015. We expect to incur approximately $126 million of one-time opening and transition costs and capital expenditures to remodel and remerchandise the stores and to invest in price and labor. We anticipate achieving synergies of approximately $48 million within four years of completion of the acquisition. We funded an initial deposit of approximately $64 million into an escrow account on July 20. 2015. We intend to fund the balance of the purchase price from available cash. We refer to this potential acquisition in this prospectus as the "A&P Transaction." The MP Transaction received approval from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on September 21.2015 and the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act terminated on September 15, 2015. We completed the acquisition of an initial A&P store on Septem