T&T Supermarket Inc., Canada’s top Asian grocery retailer chain, will open their first store in California at the Westgate Center, 1600 Saratoga Ave, San Jose, in the Fall 2025.
“We aim to create a destination,” said Tina Lee, CEO of T&T Supermarkets. “It’s a place for discovery, innovation, and bringing people together through food. We want to evolve our grocery store beyond the functional – we want to be the place where people want to go, not just need to go. We can’t wait to share that with the people of the Bay Area.
“San Jose is a very special place to me. My aunt lives in Saratoga, and I have spent many summers there. It brings back great memories. This store is for her.”
With two stores in the works in Washington, this marks T&T’s third store announcement in the Unites States, said the company.
Westgate Center is at the major intersection of Saratoga Avenue and Prospect Road. The 55,000-square-foot store is in the former Walmart location.
The developer of Westgate Center is Federal Realty, a leading real estate investment trust specializing in shopping centres such as Santana Row.
“The first time I visited a T&T, it blew my mind,” said Jeff Kreshek, Western Region President of Federal Realty. “I came back from Canada thinking, ‘we have to make this happen’. People don’t know what they are missing. T&T is a dynamic concept that caters to the eclectic interests and preferences of our community. To take the T&T experience and put it into Westgate Center – it’ll be a force multiplier.”
T&T currently operates over 33 stores across Canada, and is a full service unique shopping experience known for its vast selection of authentic Asian products, fresh produce, full service meat counter, live seafood tanks, and an in-store prepared foods program like no other.
The company said the new location will feature a BBQ counter, noodle station, dim sum and street food section, hot food bar, and a made to order Chinese crepe station. The store will also have an in-store bakery with freshly prepared delights such as mochi puffs, egg tarts, Hong Kong style pastries and customized cakes. It will be the first time Californians will be able to access the chain’s signature Private Label products including pineapple cakes, Taiwanese sausages, soup pork dumplings and green onion pancakes.
The store will create close to 200 jobs for the local community.
T&T Supermarkets is the largest Asian supermarket chain in Canada, operating over 33 stores in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec. T&T Supermarkets was founded in Vancouver in 1993 and is now led by second-generation successor and CEO Tina Lee. T&T Supermarket is headquartered in Richmond and is under the Loblaw Companies umbrella.
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