page_title: Daiso
section_title: United States
hierarchical_section_title: Daiso / Locations / United States
caption_attribution_description: English: Daiso Japan (operated by Daiso USA) at the San Gabriel Square (also known as the Focus Plaza, nicknamed after its anchor Chinese department store) on Valley Boulevard, San Gabriel, Los Angeles County, California.[1] Check out the warning signs written in four languages: English, Spanish, simplified Chinese and Japanese. 日本語: ダイソーの サンガブリエル 店 (ロサンゼルス郡)。さまざまな警告が4か国語 (英語、スペイン語、簡体字の中国語、日本語) で書かれている。
context_page_description: Daiso Industries Co., Ltd. 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, Korea, and Japan. Many of their products are house-hold items such as kitchenware and cleaning products. Daiso has locations in 25 countries and regions worldwide.
context_section_description: 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 77 stores in the United States, with more being built: seven are in Washington, 8 are in Texas, and 59 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.
  On December 12, 2018, Daiso Japan opened its first store in Hawaii, and opened another on March 14, 2019.
  On March 8, 2019, Daiso Japan opened its first branch in the East Coast U.S. in Flushing, Queens, New York.
caption: Daiso in San Gabriel, California
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