KTA Super Stores

KTA Super Store in downtown Hilo, Hawaii, USA, at a busy intersection on Hawaii State Highway 19.
KTA Super Store in Kailua Kona, Hawaii, USA.

KTA Super Stores is a company with its headquarters in Hilo, Hawaii, United States, and has the largest network of supermarkets on the Big Island.

In General

KTA Super Stores' history goes back to 1916 when Koichi and Taniyo Taniguchi, with their associates, established a small food store in Hilo, Hawaii. A hundred years after this humble start, it grew to have a network of six supermarkets on the Big Island.[1]

In 1941, KTA opened a branch store in downtown Hilo. As the original store perished in the tsunami of the 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake, they continued their business in this downtown store. In 1953, they expanded it to become a supermarket.

KTA now has a chain of six supermarkets:

  • Hilo downtown store (opened 1941)
  • Kailua Kona store (1959) - moved to the current location in 1975
  • Puainako, Hilo, store (1966)
  • Keauhou store (1984)
  • Waimea store (1989)
  • Waikoloa Village store (1990)

A new store is being prepared in Kealakekua, Hawaii as KTA's seventh store.

In its hundred-year history, KTA always responded to its customers of the community each store serves, such as providing with the Asian food corner.[2]

KTA's competitors are the local Hawaiian supermarkets, such as Foodland Hawaii and Sack 'n Save, and the nationwide supermarkets, such as Safeway, Costco, WalMart, Kmart, etc.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About". www.ktasuperstores.com. KTA Super Stores.
  2. ↑ "KTA Celebrates 100 Years in 2016". bigislandnow.com.
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