Delchamps

Delchamps
Company typePublic
Nasdaq: DLCH
IndustrySupermarket
Founded1921; 103 years ago (1921)
FounderAlfred Frederick Delchamps
Defunct2001; 23 years ago (2001)
FateAcquired by Jitney Jungle
SuccessorJitney Jungle
Headquarters,
U.S.
Number of locations
118 (at time of acquisition)
Area served
Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida

Delchamps was a chain of supermarkets along the central Gulf Coast of the United States, headquartered in Mobile, Alabama. At the time of its acquisition in 1997, the company had 118 supermarkets in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and its stock was public traded on NASDAQ under DLCH.