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TOUR: Farmer's Best Supermarket - Lawncrest, Philadephia, PA

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...