Allegiance Retail Services Opens Widdis Food Market on Staten Island

Staten Island, NY – Allegiance Retail Services is pleased to announce the opening ofWiddis Food Market. The approximately 13,000-square-foot supermarket brings a fresh, full-service grocery shopping experience to Staten Island’s Rossville community.

Shady Widdi, President of Widdis Food Market, selected Rossville for the new Widdis Food Market after recognizing the strength of the established, family-oriented community and the opportunity to reimagine an existing neighborhood supermarket. The new store reflects the same philosophy and attention to detail Widdi has brought to Foodtown of Noll Street in Brooklyn, with significant investment in the store’s design, departments, product selection, and overall shopping experience.

“Every supermarket I build, I try to take what we learned from the last one and make the next one even better,” said Widdi. “With Widdis Food Market, we are bringing that philosophy to Rossville. We are taking an established neighborhood supermarket and transforming it into a modern, high-end shopping experience while keeping the personal service and community connection that a neighborhood market should have.”

Widdis Food Market will offer customers a broad selection of fresh, specialty, and everyday grocery products, including instore freshly made mozzarella cheese, an extensive fresh produce department, natural and organic products, premium meats with a full-service butcher shop, fresh seafood and service fish, a full-service deli, specialty and imported cheeses with a cheese monger, a full-service bakery, café, juice bar, sushi, prepared foods, hot food bar, olive bar, soup bar, and grab-and-go meals. The store will feature a broad selection of traditional grocery, dairy, and frozen items.

Additionally, the supermarket will offer a strong selection of specially priced Best Yet private-label products and value items providing customers with savings while maintaining the quality and variety of the overall shopping experience. The goal is to give customers the selection and quality of a high-end specialty market while remaining a neighborhood supermarket where local families can shop for their everyday needs.

Independent grocers like the Widdi family are continually raising the bar for what neighborhood supermarkets can offer their customers. With Widdis Food Market, they are bringing a state-of-the-art grocery shopping experience to Rossville, combining exceptional fresh food offerings, quality, variety and the latest in supermarket design with the personalized service that makes independent grocers so special. We are proud to support Shady Widdi and his family and their commitment to investing in the communities they serve. His vision and dedication demonstrate how independent grocers can transform neighborhood shopping while remaining deeply connected to the people and families who call these communities home,” said Samer Rahman, President and COO of Allegiance Retail Services.

To provide convenience, Widdis will offer online shopping options.

“We are investing in the store because we are investing in the neighborhood,” said Widdi. “Rossville is a strong, family-oriented community, and I believe the people who live here deserve a supermarket that reflects that. My goal is for Widdis Food Market to become a place that people don’t just shop at because it is convenient, but a store they are genuinely proud to have in their community.”

About Allegiance Retail Services: Allegiance Retail Services, LLC supports independent supermarkets (e.g., Foodtown, Freshtown, D’Agostino, Gristedes, Pathmark, Pathmark Daily, LaBella Marketplace, Brooklyn Harvest, Market Fresh, Big Deal Food Market, Green Way Markets, and Shop n Bag) for retail success by providing them with marketing, advertising, technological and merchandising support.