Don Quijote store operator to buy California-based supermarket chain

Gelson's upscale supermarket stores in southern California,

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the Japanese retailer aims to strengthen its overseas business and boost exports of Japanese agricultural and fishery products.

Another poster on another thread said that Japanese ag produce was being air-freighted at taxpayer expense to overseas markets to promote exports.

For connected people in foreign markets, it sounds like a license to print money.

There was a rumor going around that "Don-ki" would buy rights to represent Wal-Mart in Japan. Guess they gave up on that idea.

Gelson's upscale supermarket stores in southern ****California. Never heard of them!

Gelson's upscale supermarket stores in southern ****California. Never heard of them!

Gelson's has stores in wealthy LA area neighborhoods like Century City, Hollywood, Encino, Laguna Beach, ect. It's probably not a store someone growing up in Southgate or Santa Fe Springs would be familiar with. I've seen them but never shopped in one. The prices are too high.