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Special Report: Food Bazaar Supermarket - Staten Island, NY (Stapleton)

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: October 24, 2026 Owner: Spencer An Previous Tenants:  King Kullen (1980s-1995) > Western Beef (1995-2026) Cooperative: none Location: 425 Bay St, Staten Island, NY Photographed: October 27, 2026 Food Bazaar has entered Staten Island for the first time with their acquisition of 14 of the 19 Western Beef stores , and now it's time to take a look at the smaller one on the island. (The larger one is over on Forest Avenue .) As a side note, both stores are located on the northern end of Staten Island, which tends to be more urban, more ethnically-diverse, and lower-income than the southern end. In other words, Food Bazaar might be entering the borough for the first time, but it's in the type of neighborhoods where the chain has run stores for decades. There's a lot to say about this 33,000 square foot store, which was built in the 1980s as a King Kullen. Western Beef moved in by 1995, but here's where it gets interesting. Around 2020, W...