The Market Report

Asian Food Markets Owner: Jon Chen Opened:  April 18, 2024 Cooperative:  none Location:  275 NJ-18, East Brunswick, NJ Photographed:  April 19, 2024 Asian Food Markets has brought us some very attractive new stores lately, as we've toured locations in Plainsboro and Staten Island (along with older locations in Piscataway , Marlboro , and Jersey City ). The store is around 30,000 square feet, and located in a former Asian grocer called Hong Kong Supermarket. I'm not positive what the space was originally. We enter to a food court that was still under construction when I visited, much like Plainsboro. You turn right to enter the main supermarket with produce on the right side, seafood and meat on the back wall, dairy/frozen on the far left, and bakery in the front left corner. The store is attractive and modern from the start, although that's an awfully prominent restrooms sign. (The restrooms were spotless on the second day in business.) Inside, the store is simila...

Farmer's Best Supermarket Owner: unknown Opened:  2009-2022 Cooperative:  none Location:  571 Adams Ave, Lawncrest, Philadelphia, PA Photographed:  July 2021 One of the more well-known former ACMEs in Philadelphia is the Farmer's Best Supermarket, out here in the Rising Sun Plaza. The sprawling, roughly 23 acre mall at Rising Sun Avenue and Adams Avenue was originally anchored by a department store and this ACME when it opened in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The ACME received the 1980s remodel and then small updates in the 90s Checkerboard Arch era, to use Acme Style's terms, before closing in the late 90s. Hong Kong Supermarket opened up in the former ACME in 1999 before changing to Farmer's Best in 2009, but it's unclear if the store changed ownership. After my summer 2021 visit, the store changed names again in 2022 to Super HK Supermarket (presumably for Hong Kong). These days, the Farmer's Best/Super HK store is rather large, at a solid 57,000 square fee...