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Vinanzaca Mini Market Owner:  Digna I. Vinanzaca Opened:  2014-2018 Cooperative:  Unknown Location:  47-30 Junction Blvd, Corona, NY Photographed:  July 2018 A very fast look at a small grocery store on Junction Blvd just north of Corona Avenue in Corona. In business from 2014 to 2018, the location is now vacant to my knowledge. The store seems to have gone out of business almost immediately after my photograph; it may even be closed for good at the time I passed it (I'm not sure). And up next we're going to head just around the corner from this store to tour a Cherry Valley Marketplace!

Grande Mundo Supermarket Owner:  Unknown Opened:  2014 Cooperative:  Unknown Location:  42-16 Junction Blvd, Corona, NY Photographed:  July 2018 Quick look today at a small grocery store (the name means Big World  in Spanish) along Junction Blvd as you start to move from North Corona/Jackson Heights into central Corona, which we will be visiting both on here and on The Market Report . Although I don't have an owner for this store, I would actually expect that the owner is not Spanish-speaking. In Spanish, the correct phrasing would be "Mundo Grande," the noun-adjective, or else "Gran Mundo," the adjective-noun form. The adjective grande  should never come before a noun. As far as I know, anyway!

From here on, The Market Report , The Independent Edition, and  Grocery Archaeology  will be posting stores entirely geographically. I'm switching to this instead of the random kind of chronological kind of not order I had done previously based on the themed weeks I've had. I hope it'll be easier to read! To begin with, for the new year, we're going to Queens, NY! And I don't think we've ever been there. So all of the stores we're about to see are brand-new. We'll be taking a look at them a few neighborhoods at a time, starting in the northwestern corner of the borough, with Long Island City, Jackson Heights, and Corona. This group will have posts on The Market Report and The Independent Edition. Come back on January 1st for our first store tour!