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:''This article is about Acme Markets, a division of Albertsons. For the Ohio-based chain, see Acme Fresh Market.'' 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 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 178 supermarkets〔http://www.mainlinemedianews.com/articles/2015/11/18/main_line_times/news/doc564632d0eb0e2022741059.txt〕 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 retailer of food in Greater Philadelphia, behind ShopRite.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= ShopRite edges Acme in Philadelphia-area grocery sales )〕 ==History== 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 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Acme Markets」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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