Acme Markets is a supermarket chain in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area in the United States. Acme is owned by Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based corporation SuperValu. Acme has its headquarters in East Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania, near Malvern, a Philadelphia suburb.
Acme began in 1891, when Irish immigrants Samuel Robinson and Robert Crawford set up shop in South Philadelphia. The company operates 117 supermarkets under the Acme name in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
As of 2011, Acme is the second-largest retailer of food in Greater Philadelphia.
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