Seafood City is an American

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chain that specializes in Filipino food and products. It was founded in National City, California as Manila Seafood and is headquartered in

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. It currently operates 37 stores across North America. The chain offers a wide selection of imported Filipino goods as well as Asian and 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,

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, 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. It has since expanded to 21 stores in California, with a concentration in the

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, and

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. Further expansion has led the company to open markets in the

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area,

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Canadian stores and US expansion plans

Seafood City has expanded into

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by opening its first location in

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in the Heartland Town Centre shopping district in the fall of 2017. Additional stores followed in

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in 2019, Edmonton and Calgary in 2020, and Scarborough, Ontario in 2021. Seafood City opened its first store in

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in the city of Sugar Land, near

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in December 2023. There are plans to expand to Chandler,

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in 2025,

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and

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University City Incident

In December 2022, another unrelated seafood market sharing the name, 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. 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. The incident caused an official of University City to comment on the situation.

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External links

Official Website of Seafood City
{{Supermarkets of the United States Asian-American culture in Nevada Asian-American culture in Washington (state) Filipino-American culture in California Filipino-American culture in Hawaii Retail companies established in 1989 Companies based in Los Angeles Supermarkets of the United States Filipino-American culture

Canadian stores and US expansion plans

University City Incident

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