Seafood City
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Retail, Supermarkets, Grocery, Food court |
| Founded | 1989 in National City, California, U.S. |
| Headquarters | Pomona, California |
Number of locations | 36 (as of 2023) |
Area served | California Nevada Washington Hawaii Illinois Texas Ontario Manitoba Alberta |
| Products | Filipino products |
| Website | http://www.seafoodcity.com/ |
Seafood City is an American supermarket chain that specializes in Filipino food and products. It was founded in National City, California as Manila Seafood and is headquartered in Pomona, California.[1] It has American locations in California, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, Texas, and Washington, and Canadian locations in Ontario, Alberta, and Manitoba.
The chain offers a wide selection of imported Asian goods as well as American staples. As its name suggests, Seafood City provides fresh seafood, as well as meat and produce. In some of its locations, it acts as a marketplace and serves as an anchor to Filipino businesses such as Chowking, Red Ribbon, Jollibee, and Tokyo Tokyo. In other locations, Seafood City also features locally owned Filipino video rental stores, immigration offices, travel agencies, and restaurants.
Seafood City opened its first store in National City, California in 1989.[2] It has since expanded to 21 stores in California,[3][4][5] with a concentration in the Greater Los Angeles Area, San Diego County, and Northern California. Further expansion has led the company to open markets in the Las Vegas, Nevada area,[6] Seattle (Tukwila, Washington),[7] Chicago, Illinois,[8][9] and Waipahu, Hawaii.[10]
Canadian stores and US expansion plans
[edit]Seafood City has expanded into Canada by opening its first location in Mississauga, Ontario in the Heartland Town Centre shopping district in the fall of 2017.[11] Additional stores followed in Winnipeg in 2019, Edmonton and Calgary in 2020, and Scarborough, Ontario in 2021.[12]
Seafood City opened its first store in Texas in the city of Sugar Land, near Houston in December 2023.[13][14] There are plans to expand to Chandler, Arizona in 2025,[15] Florida and Virginia.
University City Incident
[edit]In December 2022, the retail part of the store at 8020 Olive Boulevard, University City was never cleared after being shut down for health code violations, and all contents of the store decomposed without human intervention for months, leaving a smell of rotten seafood for the neighborhoods surrounding the supermarket, and having levels of fruit flies breaching in homes, 20 per day in one resident’s.[16] The seafood counters were already closed, as it had been shut down for health violations earlier, but the freezer’s contents and the packaged goods were left to decompose. Bio-One, a biohazard company, was ordered to clean it, while the owner of the property faces multiple lawsuits.[17] The incident caused an official of University City to comment on the situation.[18][19][20]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Privacy Policy | Seafood City Supermarket". www.seafoodcity.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "Our Story | Seafood City Supermarket". www.seafoodcity.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "Los Angeles | Seafood City Supermarket". www.seafoodcity.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "San Diego | Seafood City Supermarket". www.seafoodcity.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "Northern California | Seafood City Supermarket". www.seafoodcity.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "Nevada | Seafood City Supermarket". www.seafoodcity.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "Seattle | Seafood City Supermarket". www.seafoodcity.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "Seafood City to take over lease of North Mayfair Kmart". 2019-06-11. Archived from the original on 2019-06-11. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "Chicago | Seafood City Supermarket". www.seafoodcity.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "Hawaii | Seafood City Supermarket". www.seafoodcity.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "Heartland Town Centre - Seafood City Supermarket". heartlandtown.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "'Like coming home': Filipino supermarket brings favourite foods to Winnipeggers: CBC News". Retrieved 2019-11-28.
- ^ "Houston (NOW OPEN) - Seafood City Supermarket Seafood City Supermarket". www.seafoodcity.com. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "New markets, including Filipino grocery chain, reach Houston". Chron. 2023-12-13. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "Arizona's First Seafood City Supermarket coming to Chandler". AZ Big Media. 2024-11-06. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
- ^ "Lawsuits, lingering smells and flies plague former seafood supermarket in University City". ksdk.com. 2023-09-26. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
- ^ Neman, Daniel (2023-09-20). "Seafood rots inside a shuttered market. And University City can smell it". STLtoday.com. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
- ^ https://archive.today/o/ZNqrU/https://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/videos/a-really-bad-odor-developed-after-thousands-of-pounds-of-seafood-rotted-says-university-city/video_a9937beb-50e7-5c83-8fec-c5b9e3e6ffe0.html
- ^ "Thousands of pounds of rotten seafood removed from condemned Seafood City". FOX 2. 2023-09-20. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
- ^ "Tons of fish left to rot at shuttered seafood market in Missouri; locals complain of 'disgusting' stench". Fox 59. 2023-09-22. Retrieved 2024-11-14.