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Taiwanese grocery retailer 168 Market opens 2nd Bay Space location

Taiwanese grocery retailer 168 Market opened its doorways to a whole bunch of ready group members on Saturday.

Consumers arrived at 765 Sereno Drive forward of the shop’s 9 a.m. opening by greater than an hour. The shop’s opening was preceded by a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a standard Chinese language lion dance by LionDanceME.

Vallejo’s 168 Market marks the second Bay Space location the chain has opened since being based in 2006, with its first one in Fremont having opened in 2020. The grocery retailer is basically recognized for its Asian and worldwide choices of produce, snacks and frozen gadgets.

Folks store inside the brand new 168 Market through the grand opening of the shop in Vallejo on Saturday. (Chris Riley/Occasions-Herald) 

That number of meals is what matches the demographics of Central Vallejo, the place the shop is positioned, 99 Ranch Market Chairman Jonson Chen mentioned. 99 Ranch Market, the most important Asian grocery store chain in america, is owned by mother or father firm Tawa Grocery store Inc., which additionally owns 168 Market.

Jonson’s father, Rodger, opened the primary 99 Ranch in 1984 after emigrating from Taiwan. The now-closed store was positioned in a predominantly Vietnamese group within the Southern California metropolis of Westminster. Alice, Jonson’s sister, is the chief government for the corporate.

“It’s such a various group right here,” Jonson informed the Occasions-Herald. “Clearly a powerful Filipino base, however in addition to Vietnamese, in addition to some Japanese and Cambodian. It matches us so properly.”

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