Acme was founded in 1891, when Irish immigrants Samuel Robinson and Robert Crawford had opened stores in South Philadelphia. The company has today 177 supermarkets under the name Acme in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.
Irish immigrants Robinson and Crawford, founded in accordance with Acme in South Philadelphia in 1891, according to some sources, other sources claim that it was founded in 1887 or 1872. In 1917, Robinson and Crawford shared with four other Philadelphia-area stores , Including British immigrants S. Canning Childs South American American grocery chain; The new company is called the American Store. In 1927, the smaller rival Penn Fruit at Philadelphia City Center began work.
In the late 1920s, it quickly spread supermarkets under American Banner Stores over the Philadelphia, A & P, area located in New Jersey, true. Then the store has in the middle of the East Coast and as far west of New Orleans. US stores instituted these independent stores in malls in the early 1950s.
And this is Acme weekly ad, price valid from 8/11/2017 – 8/17/2017.
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