Farm Country Supermarkets Owner: Jose Diaz Opened: November 2022 Cooperative: Key Food Stores Co-Operative Location: 37-15 31st Ave, Astoria, Queens, NY Photographed: January 12, 2023 Today's third special report is not far from the first two in Long Island City (see here and here ). We're about 3/4 of a mile north in Astoria, Queens, for a store that was an Associated Supermarket since 1976. After closing in summer of 2022, it reopened in November as a Farm Country affiliated with Key Food. The Farm Country in East New York we toured a while back was sold shortly after I visited, around 2020, and changed its affiliation from Shop Fair to Key Food, and that store's owners have since opened two others -- this one and a former Waldbaum's-turned-Food Universe in Jackson Heights. The 13,000 square foot store was a very old supermarket , and Farm Country's owners clearly invested a lot of money to modernize the space and drastically increase selection, or at least...