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Food Farm Supermarket Owner:  Ronnie Shiekh Opened:  2017-2019 Cooperative:  Associated Supermarket Group Location:  241-11 Linden Blvd, Elmont, NY Photographed:  December 2018 I'm warning you, as we get into these next few Snapshots, get ready for some bad  pictures. They were taken out of a car window by a bad cell phone camera at night. Anyway, this is our second Food Farm, the first being in Valley Stream . This Compare Foods-turned-Associated was sold in 2017 to Food Farm, which reopened it but closed less than two years later. And, my friends, that is all. We have a full tour tomorrow on The Market Report , so definitely go check that out!

Food Farm Supermarket Owner:  Ronnie Shiekh Opened:  2015-2019 Cooperative:  Associated Supermarket Group Location:  351 N Central Ave, Valley Stream, NY Photographed:  December 2018 This store, opened in 2015, replaced a Desi Food Market in the same location. The Desi Food Market at 109-19 Liberty Ave in Woodhaven, Queens, also became a Food Farm, as did Associated stores at 241-11 Linden Blvd, Elmont, NY (in 2017), and 89-61 Francis Lewis Blvd, Queens Village (in 2015). This store was in somewhat poor repair, with some shelves sparse and a general feeling of dinginess around the building. The chain went under entirely in 2019, but a year prior they found themselves in hot water for an employee who threw frozen meat on a loading dock to separate it. The grocery selection is heavily Middle Eastern and South Asian. As yet, nothing has replaced this now-vacant 11,000 square foot space. There is another supermarket just half a mile n...