Hashi Market Opens 21,000 SQFT Cupertino Store as Bay Area Asian Grocery Race Heats Up

After more than a year of delays, New York-based Japanese grocer Hashi Market opened its first West Coast store on Oct. 9 in a 20,900-square-foot former Sprouts in Cupertino, the first of seven locations outside New York City the company now lists, as it enters a Bay Area market already crowded with Asian grocery chains competing for a dwindling supply of large-format retail space.