Badshahs Farmers Market
Opened: February 13, 2026
Glance at that storefront and you already know what's going on here. Another former Rite Aid has become a supermarket! This one is now Badshahs Farmers Market, a South Asian store with large Bangladeshi, Indian, and Guyanese selections (South Richmond Hill's Liberty Avenue corridor, just two blocks south, is known as Little Guyana).
The roughly 11,000 square foot store does appear to be connected to a Long Island supermarket called Badshah Farmers Market, but this one has an "s" on the end of the name. And here, Badshahs has expanded the supermarket into the parking lot, taking up about half of the lot with rows of produce, sale items, and storage containers. We've seen new operators expand former Rite Aid stores into the parking lot, but here it's less of an official expansion and more of a spillover, with some produce bins just covering existing parking spots.
In fact, you can see the lines for the spots below. (I'm not entirely sure this is fully legal, as I don't think there's dedicated handicap parking anymore. But I'm not well enough versed in the specific laws to know for sure.)
I was here on opening day, and the place was packed with people, as you can see. There are many other South Asian supermarkets within walking distance of this one, so it's a tough market to break into but people were at least taking notice of the opening.
Let's step inside!
A produce selection packed with all manner of vegetables lines the right side of the wall, with baked goods and desserts at the back of the first aisle. There's a halal meat shop on the back wall, which might be an outside business, with dairy and frozen on the left side.
It's easy to tell with a glance inside that there's a lot left over from Rite Aid here. The flooring, ceiling, and lighting are quite clearly Rite Aid remnants, although there's been a lot added that's new in the way of fixtures and shelving.
That said, you can clearly see where Rite Aid's shelving used to be!
The new baked goods/sweets counter at the back, which is standard in many Indian and South Asian supermarkets.
Halal meat in a separate room off the back wall.
The grocery aisles are stocked mostly with South Asian and Middle Eastern products, but there are some mainstream groceries, too. There's also some nonfoods, and some seem to be coming from Krasdale.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there used to be something in aisle 17 other than bakery. Check out this GNC sign left over from Rite Aid, still hanging in the aisle!
There are a few other Rite Aid remnants throughout the store, too, but it's particularly entertaining to see one that doesn't really have anything to do with the store's current purpose.
The grocery aisles are split in half front to back.
Frozen and dairy are in the last aisle...
...and Rite Aid once again makes its presence known in the beverages section, with this sign. If I had to guess, there probably was previously more here, probably something like "beverages - quench your thirst," but it looks like a couple of those words might've been lost. Here's a look inside the Rite Aid.
The front half of the last aisle is cookware.
And the registers are lined up against the front wall, probably in an arrangement similar to Rite Aid's.
And even on the way out, we're reminded of the history. Like the beverages sign, this thank you sign still works just fine, so why bother changing it?
It's fun to see this space get a new use but keep some nods to its history! Here's some other posts from this weekend...
Owner: Amandeep Tony
Previous Tenants: Rite Aid
Cooperative: none
Location: 109-17 101st Ave, South Richmond Hill, NY
Photographed: February 13, 2026
You know, I think old Rite Aid stores are becoming the equivalent of the centennial A&Ps. You know how you can tell if a store was an old A&P by the design of the building? Same thing with Rite Aids of this era (late 1990s).
ReplyDeleteExamples being the Clifton Food Universe and the Fair Lawn CVS in Route 4 (although in the first case, you can tell because they never bothered to either scrub off or paint over the label scar on the side of the building; it looks sloppy).