A Store Tour of the First Ever East Coast Daiso Store in Flushing, Queens, NYC.
Filmed March 8, 2019
From Wikipedia:
“Daiso Industries Co., Ltd. (株式会社大創産業 Kabushiki gaisha Daisōsangyō) is a large franchise of 100-yen shops founded in Japan. Its headquarters are in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture.
Daiso has a range of over 100,000 products, of which over 40 percent are imported goods, many of them from China. Many of their products are house-hold items such as kitchenware and cleaning products. Daiso has locations in 25 countries and regions worldwide.
Daiso was originally opened first as a street vending shop dealing with 100-yen products known as “Yano Shoten” by Hirotake Yano in 1972. He later founded Daiso in 1977.
Daiso often uses such locations as previous pachinko parlours for its retail outlets. They spend a lot of money on shelving and fixtures to help the stores compete with more high-end retailers. The stock of items retailed at each shop is varied frequently in order to increase repeat customers.
Daiso categorizes all of its own branded items on sale using the morpheme za (ザ), the Japanese representation of the English word “the”, plus a category. For example, za hanabi (ザ・花火) is the category for fireworks, and za purasuchikku (ザ・プラスチック) is the category for plastic items such as plastic buckets or trays.
In 2004, Daiso started selling items priced at multiples of 100 yen, such as 200, 300, 400 or 500 yen.
Daiso has 2,800 stores in Japan, and 700 stores overseas in Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kuwait, Macau, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, New Zealand, Oman, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, and Vietnam.
On October 2, 2005, the first store in the United States opened for business in Alderwood Mall located in Lynnwood, Washington near Seattle, WA. This store is much smaller at only 442 square meters (approx. 4,750 square feet), and items were originally one of three prices, $1, $1.50, & $2 (all USD). The current inventory now includes packaged food and items are now priced up to $8, though most items are at the $1.50 price point.
There are over fifty stores in the United States: seven are in Washington and over forty in California. The largest U.S. Daiso is located in Union City, California, which has 17,760 square foot (1,650 square meters) of floor space and opened on August 8, 2007. A total of 15 to 20 locations are planned for the entire San Francisco Bay Area in the future.
In March 2019, Daiso Japan opened its first branch in the East Coast U.S. in Flushing, Queens, New York.”
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Zhiyun Crane V2 Gimbal:
Senal SCS-98 Stereo Microphone:
LowePro Photo Classic 300 AW:
AmazonBasics Medium DSLR Gadget Bag:
Samsung 128GB microSD Card:
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