ACME SUPERMARKET

Found on Padre Faura between Mabini and M.H. del Pilar, this grocery store was the first choice of families who wanted to buy imported chocolates, potato chips, and other food items from America, Europe, and Australia.

The ACME on Padre Faura was one of the first modern grocery stores specializing in imported foodstuffs. If you’re born in the 1950′s, you probably remember Acme Super Market as the store where kids would sneak in to buy their favorite Sen-Sen candies, Double Bubble Gum, or comics.

After World War II, there was a great construction and restoration of facilities in the Philippines undertaken by the U.S. Government. There were a lot of Americans involved in the major constructions that temporarily becomes residents of the Philippines and that includes their families.

American style supermarkets such as ACME provides for the daily grocery needs of American professionals and servicemen during that time. It also caters to Filipinos who wants to purchase imported goods.