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Wigwam Stores Inc. Wigwam Stores Inc. was an American chain of discount department stores that was based in Seattle and operated across five states: Washington, Hawaii, Oregon, California and Arizona. The discount department store was a fairly new concept when Wigwam's first store opened in 1946. Wigwam Stores' goal was to sell a wide array of ...
The Sullivan Family of Companies is a privately run American supermarket, retailer and restaurant franchiser headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. The family-owned business is run by Jenai S. Wall, [1] the daughter of Maurice J. "Sully" Sullivan, who founded the Foodland supermarket chain, which she expanded after his death.
ABC Stores. ABC Stores is a chain of convenience stores based in Honolulu. The chain operates 73 stores, 58 of which are located in the state of Hawaii, with the remaining locations in the Mariana Islands (1), Las Vegas (6), and Guam (8). [1] The company now generates more than $230 million in annual sales and employs over 1500 staff, and is ...
The Old Sugar Mill, established in 1835 by Ladd & Co., is the site of the first sugar plantation. In 1836 the first 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) of sugar and molasses was shipped to the United States. [1] The plantation town of Koloa, was established adjacent to the mill. By the 1840s sugarcane plantations gained a foothold in Hawaiian agriculture.
Pearlridge Center. Pearlridge Center is the second largest shopping center in Hawaiʻi, after Ala Moana, and is Hawaiʻi's largest enclosed shopping center, located in ʻAiea. Opened in 1972 and expanded in 1976, the enclosed mall is split into three "phases" (Uptown, Downtown, and Phase Three) and overlooks historic Pearl Harbor and the USS ...
A Lawson store in Kōtō, Tokyo A Lawson self-service station with attached convenience store in Shingū, Fukuoka, Japan. In 1974, Consolidated signed a formal agreement with The Daiei, Inc., a retail company which also ran a supermarket chain, to open the first Lawson stores in Japan. On April 15, 1975, Daiei Lawson Co., Ltd. was established ...
Times Supermarkets (full name Times Supermarkets, Ltd.) is an American supermarket chain headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.Times operates 24 stores throughout the state of Hawaiʻi, 17 using the Times name, five operating under the Big Save brand (all on Kauaʻi), one specialty food/liquor store under the Fujioka's Wine Times name, and one location operating as Shima's Supermarket in Waimānalo.
3. Spam. Spam is super popular in Hawaii, and McDonald's is capitalizing on it. During World War II, soldiers were served the canned meat because it was portable, shelf-stable, full of protein ...