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Kimberton Whole Foods Owner: Terry Brett Opened:  2019 Cooperative:  INFRA Location:  4010 Durham Rd, Ottsville, PA Photographed:  July 22, 2021 Today's post is a really exciting store -- at least to me! This is our second time visiting a Kimberton Whole Foods natural market, with our first stop back in Downingtown in the Lancaster County area. That store was fine, but didn't do much for me. This 18,000 square foot, four-year-old location really blew me away, though, and a big part of that was the produce department. As we'll see, there's a lot of really unique local stuff here. The store also features a restaurant on the side with its own entrance. For the supermarket, we enter in the middle of the storefront and turn right for produce and bulk foods on the right side wall. Meats and dairy are on the back wall, with frozen foods in the second-to-last aisle and bakery/prepared foods in the last aisle. There's a coffee shop/cafe in the front left corner, with HABA ...

Kimberton Whole Foods Owner: Terry Brett Opened:  2004 Cooperative:  INFRA Location:  150 E Pennsylvania Ave, Downingtown, PA Photographed:  August 20, 2019 We're at our second store here in Downingtown, about a mile and a half west of the Wegmans we saw yesterday. This store is 6100 square feet -- the Wegmans is nearly 20 times as large. But this Kimberton Whole Foods is a very pleasant outpost of the eastern PA natural foods chain. Originating in Kimberton, PA, the chain has since expanded to six locations with one more coming soon. Kimberton's produce is one of its strongest features, with a large amount of it coming from local farms including a farming cooperative based in Lancaster. While this store is quite nice, we can tell it's an older Kimberton store compared to newer stores like Collegeville , in part of a former ACME. Produce is in the front right corner, and dairy, meat, and frozen line the outside walls. There's some short grocery aisles in the middle...