Acme Markets
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| Industry | Retail |
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| Founded | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1891) |
| Headquarters | East Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania, United States |
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Number of locations
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179 |
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Key people
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Dan Croce (President) |
| Products | Bakery, dairy, deli, frozen foods, general grocery, meat, pharmacy, produce, seafood, snacks, liquor, health, beauty |
| Parent | Albertsons (1999–present) |
| Website | acmemarkets |
Acme Markets Inc. is a supermarket chain in the Delaware Valley and New York City metropolitan areas, in the United States. It is owned by the Boise, Idaho-based corporation Albertsons and headquartered in East Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania, near Malvern, a Philadelphia suburb.
Acme was established in 1891, when Irish immigrants Samuel Robinson and Robert Crawford opened a store in South Philadelphia. The company today has 179 supermarkets under the Acme name in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. It closed two stores, in Chalfont and Warminster, Pennsylvania, in November 2014.
As of 2011, Acme was the second-largest food retailer in Greater Philadelphia, behind ShopRite.
Irish immigrants, Robinson and Crawford, founded what is now Acme in south Philadelphia in 1891, according to some sources, with other sources suggesting that it was founded in 1887 or 1872. In 1917, Robinson and Crawford merged Acme Markets with four other Philadelphia-area grocery stores, including English immigrant S. Canning Childs's south New Jersey-based American grocery chain; the new company was named American Stores. In 1927, smaller rival Penn Fruit began operating in Philadelphia's Center City. In the late 1920s, supermarkets under the American Stores banner rapidly sprouted throughout the Philadelphia region, rivaling New Jersey-based A&P, which then featured downtown stores throughout the East Coast, and as far west as New Orleans. American Stores first introduced self-service stores in shopping centers in the early 1950s.
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