Following a decline in business, as well as new competition in the area, the store closed its doors in 2014. Henry's Acme, the company's first and only franchise location, opened in 2000. Henry Johnson, a longtime Acme employee, worked with Acme and the city to open a new grocery store. This was part of the company's effort to downsize and re-brand the remaining stores as Acme Fresh Market.Īfter the loss of their local Acme store in 1997, residents in West Akron rallied for a new supermarket to move in. The Acme Express stores were sold to CVS/pharmacy. Some of the Super Centers were converted into Acme Fresh Markets, while others were sold. At the end of the 1990s, the Super Centers and Express stores were closed. The Y-Mart stores were renamed Acme Express in 1996. After new competition entered the area, the Click stores were renamed Acme Super Centers in the early 1990s. In the 1970s, Acme joined with Youngfellow Pharmacy to open Y-Mart stores, a chain of pharmacy/ convenience stores similar to Walgreens. The first Acme-Click store was in Stow (currently Fresh Market #17). The Click stores were department stores with a full-sized Acme grocery store under one roof. In 1965, Acme opened a subsidiary retail chain called Click. In 1966, the 75th anniversary of the business, the last of the small corner stores was closed. Following the war, Acme began to experiment in the Supermarket business, opening their first such location in 1952. The Great Depression and World War II brought a decline in consumer behavior and caused Acme to halt its expansion.
After ceasing home-delivery operations, Albrecht renamed his stores once again to “Acme Cash Basket Stores.” Acme grew to over 100 stores, both large and small, by the 1930s. More "Acme Cash Stores" soon opened around the Akron area, reaching 40 locations by 1918. He also changed his business to conduct cash-only sales. After visiting an Acme store in Philadelphia (currently, a supermarket chain owned by Albertsons), Albrecht soon renamed his small corner grocery store "Acme". In 1891, he opened his own store in Akron, called F.W. It was established in 1891.įrederick Wilhelm Albrecht, a native of Massillon, Ohio, started in the grocery business when he gained control of his brother’s local store. Albrecht Grocery Company, under the trade name Acme Fresh Market, is a grocery store chain based in Akron, Ohio, that has 16 locations in Summit, Portage, Stark, and Cuyahoga counties of Northeast Ohio.
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