The T&T supermarket chain plans to expand into California through the opening of a new store in San Jose.

Canada’s largest Asian grocery retailer announced that it will open a 55,000-square-foot store at the Westgate shopping centre at 1600 Saratoga Avenue in fall 2025. The new supermarket will be situated in a former Walmart location.

“We aim to create a destination,” said Tina Lee, CEO of Richmond, B.C.-based T&T Supermarkets. “It’s a place for discovery, innovation, and bringing people together through food. We want to evolve our grocery store beyond the functional – we want to be the place where people want to go, not just need to go.

“We can’t wait to share that with the people of the Bay Area. San Jose is a very special place to me. My aunt lives in Saratoga, and I have spent many summers there. It brings back great memories. This store is for her.”

Bethesda, Md.-based Federal Realty, a leading REIT, is the developer behind the Westgate centre.

“The first time I visited a T&T, it blew my mind,” said Jeff Kreshek, Federal’s western region president, “I came back from Canada thinking: We have to make this happen. People don’t know what they are missing.

T&T is a dynamic concept that caters to the eclectic interests and preferences of our community. To take the T&T experience and put it into Westgate Center – it’ll be a force multiplier.”

The San Jose store will be T&T’s third U.S. location. The chain is also developing two stores in the Seattle area.

T&T currently operates about 33 stores in Canada.

Photo: Tina Lee, CEO of T&T and Jeff Kreshek, Federal Realty’s western region president

Rendering: CNW Group/T&T Supermarkets