The Market Report

Supremo Food Market Owner: Eddie Trujillo Opened:  2020 Previous Tenants:  ACME Markets (late 70s/early 80s - 2002) > Supreme Food Market (2005-2020) Cooperative:  none Location:  900 Orthodox St, Frankford, Philadelphia, PA Photographed:  July 2021 By now, we're pretty well-versed in Supremo -- we've seen 13 of their 14 stores. And here's the 14th! This store of roughly 36,000 square feet was constructed in the late 1970s or early 1980s as an ACME according to JoshAustin610 , then closed in 2002. The space remained vacant until Supreme Food Market opened around 2005-06, later converting to Supremo around 2020. The ACME facade is still very much intact, but looking good with a fresh repaint. The former Kmart next door is today a National Wholesale Liquidators, complete with a full fleet of Pathmark carts... Let's head into the Supremo and take a tour. We'll be very familiar with the way this store looks by now, having previously had the same decor package a...

Supremo Food Market Owner: Eddie Trujillo Opened:  2016 Previous Tenants:  Penn Fruit (closed ca. 1970s) > Thriftway (ca. 1970s-ca. 2001) > Supreme Food Market (2003-2008) > Supreme Shop n Bag (2008-2016) Cooperative:  none Location:  4301 Walnut St, University City, Philadephia, PA Photographed:  December 2021 It's been a while since we saw a Supremo, huh? Well, in addition to the 12 Supremos and Supremo-owned stores we've seen so far, there are two here in Philadelphia. The first is in the University City neighborhood, so named for its location with many universities in a very close radius, including the University of Pennsylvania. One of my best friends has a sister who lives in this neighborhood and works at Temple University in North Philadelphia, and she lives right between this Supremo and the ACME a few blocks away (previously The Fresh Grocer). Well, we talk about supemarkets and apparently they talk about me, so I got the news of this store's...

Supreme Food Market Owner: Eddie Trujillo Opened: 2016 Previous Tenants:  GEX > Kmart (closed 2003) > Supremo Food Market (ca. 2003-ca. 2005) > Shop n Bag (ca. 2005-2016) Cooperative:  none Location:  7500 S Crescent Blvd, Pennsauken, NJ Photographed:  January 2021 We arrive at the final Pennsauken store which is also the last Supremo we'll see in New Jersey -- and yes, we've seen every Supremo in NJ along with all the former stores. This one is a bit different from the other Supremos that we've seen because, although I knew at the time it was really large, I didn't realize that the store (along with its associated wholesale warehouse division next door) makes up 70,000 square feet -- or almost double the next largest Supremo. This store and its strip mall were built on the site of an airport and was built as a GEX membership warehouse store , later Kmart, which closed in 2003. Supremo opened shortly thereafter, making this their second store in Pennsauken...