Acme Markets

I’ve never really been a fan of Acmes. Usually when I go I find what I need however, the prices are almost always higher than other markets in the area. I almost never get any fresh seafood since it looks dismal. I usually get something from the deli section. The gentlemen there today was slightly rude and the workers seem to not know where things are located. That’s strange. However, the cashiers are usually kind.

Always out of organic half and half, always! Deli counter a mess. They never pay attention to the numbers, and 2 employees just left the counter with 4 customers in line.

You know what? I give this place 4 out of 5 stars! On a 10 point scale, probably a 7, perhaps a 7.5
This is a great generic type supermarket. I am not from Philly, but this is my neighborhood go-​to supermarket, and I am impressed! For real, ACME seems like they care, and they try. ALWAYS ample parking. ALWAYS safely lit, ALWAYS the shopping carts are usually well corralled in the parking lot ;)
I try to eat clean and organic, and especially important to me is grassfed dairy and grassfed beef. I can do most of my shopping, including pastured eggs, grassfed whole milk, grassfed beef, fresh cold cuts, organic fruits and veggies, and some snack foods, and coffee, tea, dry goods. Pricing is good to excellent, if you catch their deals.
Watch the ice cream sales. When haggen daz pints go on sale, I think it is 2 for $ 5 or 2 for $ 6 (seriously), I pick up half a dozen. I might start getting a twelver of ice cream next time it is on sale, lol.
Couple gripes: I loathe the self-​checkout. Bad technology, constant errors, constant recalling an item because it was somehow bagged in a way that flags the scanner. Anyway, assistance comes quickly unless the store is busy, then you just have to wait.
Also, I wish there were later hours. I understand everyone has to go home too, but maybe open til midnite would be great. I often shop late, and while less crowded, there are people in the store up til 10:55 when they close.
Also, as they close at 11, they shut the main entrance, and route all traffic to the exit to the right, and have shoppers enter that way. Sometimes it seems that starts as early as 10pm or sooner. Oh well, their store, their rules!
Final gripe: I applaud the buyers for ACME stocking grassfed and gourmet cheeses! In fact, when some go on sale, I do buy them! But a gripe is the pricing on some of them. How can ACME in some cases be 2−3x the price for the same cheese as Weavers Way or even Whole Foods?
PLEASE keep stocking KerryGold butter! It is a great grassfed butter at a great price.
If you shop at non-​peak hours, it is a joy to walk the aisles. Night staff is pleasant, in fact, I usually am asked at least 1x, sometimes multiple times by staff if I need help, which is wonderful. ACME delivers in the service area.
It is clean, and really, what more can you ask for?
Oh yeah, it is safe, very safe. Some might balk at the neighborhood, but it is actually safe!
Nice seasonal decorations out front.

Unlike the cartoon corporation Acme, there’s nothing fictional about this place. It’s one of my favorite grocery stores to go to. It’s always clean, I usually find what I’m looking for and the customer service is great. Especially the seafood guy, always super helpful. Though there’s always a line at the deli, it moves rather quickly.
I would have given it 5 stars, but I have to go to Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods for some of my organic items. I rather them sell in season produce than sell conventional produce all year around.
Plenty of parking, good people, and a good selection. You can get better flowers for better prices at produce junction.

Just moved to Philly from the West coast and this grocery store is closest to my house. Unfortunately on my first day two kids from the bus stop decided to harass me by throwing things at me and calling me «Bitch». They followed me but luckily didn’t follow me into the store but waited outside. Had to call my roommate to pick me up. I just walked there to get water — Doesn’t appear to be a Safe Neighborhood in which to simply walk to a Grocery store.

The positive: I found good prices on some things I wanted to buy and things looked OK. But only one star because I have never, ever experienced such a bad smell in a grocery store as I did there tonight. Yikes! From the moment I walked in the door, the entire store smelled horrible. And one of the employees smelled horrible too. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.

This market has a great location. It’s accessible by Route 23 bus and the Lovett Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia is across the street. There’s plenty of parking space in the lot. But… the market is staffed by the most indifferent, ignorant slobs with insouciant and perfunctory attitudes toward the customers that I’ve ever encountered outside of Germantown. I thought that the ignorant peasants in Germantown stores were horrible but these people really do give them a run for their money. I went there on a Saturday morning (8÷2÷2014 @1130AM). Saturday morning??? Come on! There was no one at the deli counter and there was no one at the seafood counter. I needed to use the rest room. It had been cleaned but the floor was wet and I slipped but luckily caught myself before falling on my ass. At the checkout I stood in line behind two folks ahead of me and waited for about 5 or 6 minutes before the checkout doofus exclaimed that he was closed and had to go to another checkout line. In the next checkout line the checkout person didn’t even look at me and I received no greeting at all. She was so busy chatting with the checkout person at the next register that she didn’t even notice that I was handing her my Acme coupon card until she finished ringing up my order and then said that she didn’t need to see it. What is wrong with these people? I really must add that the pharmacy is always up to snuff. I have always had a good experience at this store’s pharmacy and every year I go there for a flu shot. I would have gone to the self check out but those things always seem to malfunction and I find it extremely irritating to hear the voice of the machine constantly telling me to «Place the item in the bag» and then wait for assistance. The management in this store needs to get their heads out of their asses and take a good look at what is happening at this place. It seems that whenever I go to this market which is a large market and is in a great location, that there are less than 15 people shopping here. There must be a reason for this. My guess is that it serves people (like me) that don’t want to go to Flourtown Giant or to the shopping center/​mall in Conshohocken. If I only need a few items I’ll take the bus from Chestnut Hill. It’s only a six minute ride on the bus from where I live so I don’t have to drive but the shopping experience is horrendous and the prices are a good bit higher than at the other markets. I really don’t know how Acme Markets allows this place to continue to be open. Acme Markets needs to terminate a lot of these lazy ignorant creeps and hire a new bunch of people. Whole Foods and Giant Markets would never tolerate such behavior from their employees.

I have never understood exactly why this supermarket is so expensive. It is even expensive relative to other Acme stores. However, it is conveniently located, and relatively bright and clean. If you need something in a pinch, especially at a late hour, it’s nice to have this here. The 23 bus stops directly in front of this Acme, so it’s very easy to get to with public transit.

This Acme is convenient, but I loathe it with a passion. Apart from occasional deals, they seem to be the most expensive supermarket chain. But my real gripe is that the produce is utterly crap. In the last few months alone, we’ve come home with what turned out to be a rancid watermelon half, tasteless oranges, rotten tomatoes, and moldy mushrooms. I got so fed up at one point that I submitted feedback via their website about the produce, to which they replied a couple of days later saying they needed the UPC for the spoiled items, which is great because I totally store rotten fruit in my house intentionally. The next time, I included that information, and got a couple of very apologetic emails, one from customer service, and another from the store manager inviting me to bring the item back for exchange or refund. Unfortunately I had once again made the unforgivably stupid mistake of not leaving moldy produce in my fridge, so I kind of left it at that.
We still go there if we need one or two things right away, but try to avoid it otherwise. Until they bring back Sweepstakes, and then you know I’ll be all over that jawn.

I go to this store because it’s the closest to my house. It’s fine for basic staples — canned goods, frozen foods, stocking up on Fage yogurt, but I don’t recommend it for fresh produce or meat — not great in terms of prices or quality. Head to Weavers Way or one of the farmers’ markets in the area.
Forget hitting up the deli if there are more than 2 people in line — you’ll be waiting forever just to get subpar cold cuts because the counter is usually severely understaffed.
For the workers here that are totally disinterested in helping customers, there are also some really helpful and friendly employees here — it’s pretty much hit or miss. Definitely not a place to write home about, but not atrocious either.

It’s right around the corner and I still won’t go there. It’s such a massive scam — many items there are literally double what they are in other stores ($ 8 for boursin? I’ve seen it for $ 3.50 elsewhere in Philly), the selection is abysmal in terms of both variety and quality, the workers disinterested and understaffed, the self-​checkouts frequently non-​functioning. I get that it’s a mega-​chain grocery store and it’s not going to be a bastion of quality meats and cheeses (or fresh produce, or pretty much anything…) but there’s no reason on Earth that everything should be marked up so ridiculously high. I cannot fathom why anyone would ever choose to go there.