thumb|Alepa in City-Center|Citycenter mall, [[Helsinki; unit since defunct.]] thumb|Alepa in Pukinmäki, Helsinki Alepa is a grocery shop chain in the Greater Helsinki region of Finland. It is currently owned by HOK-Elanto, a part of the nationwide cooperative S Group. Alepa was founded in 1918, when Edvard Pajunen and his wife founded a shop in Sörnäinen, Helsinki.