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Dahua Supermarket to close its Chino location in Southern California, affecting 49 employees; The company has filed a notice under the WARN Act for undisclosed reasons. At the same time, competition between Southern California and Asian supermarkets is still heating up in the Inland Empire.
99 Ranch Market, a large American Asian supermarket chain, will close in South AmericaCalifornia Inland Empire, a store in Chino, is expected to close Nov. 15, a few weeks before the year-end holiday shopping season. According to a report submitted to the California governmentretrenchment Note that the store closing will affect 49 employees.
According to the California Post, Tawa Supermarket Inc., the parent company of Tawa Supermarket, submitted a notice related to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act) on October 26. The law generally requires employers to notify employees at least 60 days before a mass layoff, plant closing or transfer, but the Chino location was scheduled to close about 20 days after the notice was submitted.
The California Employment Development Department (EDD) explained that if a company cannot provide a 60-day notice period, it must still submit the relevant notice and explain the reason. Public information currently does not specify the specific reasons for the early closure of the store this time.
Dahua Supermarket is headquartered in Buena Park, California, about 30 miles from the Chino branch. According to the company’s website, Dahua Supermarket has 66 stores in 11 states across the United States, 43 of which are in California. There is still another Dahua Supermarket branch in Chino city, as well as another Asian supermarket chain H Mart, so the closure of this store does not mean that Dahua Supermarket has completely withdrawn from the local area.
Dahua Supermarket was involved in a federal employment discrimination lawsuit this summer. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged that the company allegedly allowed non-Chinese employees fewer shift hours than Chinese-American employees and failed to promote some employees because they were not Chinese-American. The relevant material is an allegation in a lawsuit and still needs to be confirmed by judicial procedures. There is currently no information to confirm whether this is directly related to the store closure or not.
There are also reports of store closings amid continued reports of corporate layoffs in California. Ontario-based Myers Power Products has submitted a layoff notice this month, expected to affect 206 employees; Bay Area-headquartered e-commerce company eBay has also announced several layoffs this year, and a total of about 700 employees will be affected by the related layoff plans.
As the Chino store is about to close, the working arrangements of 49 employees have become the focus of the incident, which is another example of recent operational and manpower adjustments in the California retail industry.
Although the Chino branch of Dahua Supermarket is about to close,Southern California There are still new players entering the Asian supermarket market in the state. T&T Supermarket, Canada’s largest Asian supermarket chain, plans to open a new store at Crossroads Marketplace in Chino Hills this fall. The store will be approximately 61,000 square feet and will occupy the former sites of Best Buy and Bed Bath & Beyond. This is expected to create approximately 350 employment opportunities.
Following the closure of the Chino store, Dahua Supermarket still has two stores in the Inland Empire, located in Corona and Rancho Cucamonga.
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The Chino branch is expected to cease operations on Nov. 15, affecting 49 employees, according to a layoff notice submitted by the company. The store closed ahead of the year-end shopping season, which had a significant impact on the manpower arrangements of local stores.
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Parent company, Tawa Supermarkets Inc., submitted a WARN Act notice on October 26, but had only 20 days to close the stores, less than the typical 60-day requirement. California said it could reveal the reason, but no public information has been released yet.
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No. There is still another Dahua branch in Chino, and there are also two stores in the Inland Empire area, Corona and Rancho Cucamonga. At the same time, H Mart and the upcoming T&T also show that local competition is still fierce.
