The Market Report

99 Ranch Market Opened: July 2025 Owner:  Roger Chen Previous Tenants:  Super HK Market (1993-2024) Cooperative:  none Location:  37-11 Main St, Flushing, NY Photographed:  July 25, 2025 Time for another NYC grand opening! And this is an important one. 99 Ranch Market, the west coast-based Asian supermarket chain, has arrived for the first time in New York City. Beginning in 2016, the chain established a presence in the area, with Jersey City and Edison opening that year. Hackensack opened in 2018 -- all three were former Pathmarks -- and then 99 Ranch moved north with a store in Quincy, MA in 2020 and east with a store in Westbury, NY in 2022. They've now opened their latest east coast store, a 22,000 square foot store in downtown Flushing. It's situated right on Main Street in the middle of the action in Flushing, one of New York City's largest Asian communities. This is, notably, one of the only times an Asian supermarket chain from out of town has entere...

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...