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Special Report: Key Food/SuperFresh - Queens, NY (Oakland Gardens)

Welcome to Oakland Gardens, a suburban neighborhood in northeastern Queens! Over the past several years, this neighborhood -- which only has two supermarkets -- has seen a lot of change in its grocery scene. What's going on here? Let's take an extensive look at the two stores. 214-14 73rd Ave, Oakland Gardens, NY Let's start with 214-14 73rd Avenue, which is geographically kind of in the middle of Oakland Gardens. This supermarket dates back to the 1950s when it was a Food Fair, but by the mid-1970s, it became a Dan's Supreme supermarket. Dan's Supreme stuck around for a long time -- they became part of a group called Majors, and in 1990, Dan's Supreme's 21 stores all joined Key Food. So up until this past week, this store was a Key Food owned by Dan's Supreme (the Grobman family). On Friday, this store changed ownership and was taken over by a different Key Food operator called Food World, owned by Hi Jong Lee (aka Howard Lee, who also owns Food World ...