Shun Fat Supermarket

{{Short description|American Asian supermarket chain}}

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| native_name = 順發超級市場

| native_name_lang = zh-Hant

| type = Private

| industry = Retail

| predecessor = Fred Meyer store

| founded = {{Start date and age|1990s}}

| founder = Hieu Tai Tran

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| hq_location_city = Sacramento, California

| hq_location_country = United States

| num_locations = 18

| areas_served = California, Nevada, Texas, and Oregon

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| products = Bakery, dairy, deli, frozen foods, grocery, meat, produce, seafood, snacks, liquor

| owner = Hieu Tai Tran

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| website = {{URL|shunfatsupermarket.com}}

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Shun Fat Supermarket ({{CJKV|t=順發超級市場|s=顺发超级市场|p=Shùnfā Chāojíshìchǎng|cy=seuhn faat chīu kāp síh chèuhng|v=Siêu Thị Thuận Phát}}; also known as SF Supermarket) is a Chinese Vietnamese American supermarket chain in the San Gabriel Valley region in California, Little Saigon, Orange County, California, Sacramento, California, San Pablo, California, Las Vegas, Nevada, Portland, Oregon and Garland, Texas.

Shun Fat Supermarket was started in the mid-1990s by a Chinese Vietnamese entrepreneur named Hieu Tai Tran (陳才孝). Its first store was opened in the Chinese American suburban community of Monterey Park, California. Despite some amusement in the English-speaking press, the name "Shun Fat" actually means "prosperity" in Chinese.Steve Harvey, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-15-me-4571-story.html "Welcome to Los Angeles, and Be Sure to Have a Shun Fat Day"], Los Angeles Times, August 15, 2000.

The Asian supermarket chain that sells imported grocery items from Asia – particularly mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam – and also a few mainstream American brands as well. Its locations tend to be in newer suburban Chinatowns as well as in developing ethnic Vietnamese American commercial districts.

The market chain competes mainly with the 99 Ranch Market and Hong Kong Supermarket. Like these two supermarket chains, Shun Fat Supermarket usually serves as a major anchor store in some Asian shopping centers and strip malls, which in some cases have been renovated extensively by Hieu Tran. The "Superstores" in Dallas, El Monte, Garden Grove, Las Vegas, San Gabriel and Westminster are uniquely Chinese hypermarkets, as they sell clothing, small electronics and other products in addition to groceries,Wei Li, Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America (University of Hawaii Press, 2009), {{ISBN|978-0824830656}}, pp. 76, 109. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kVNLuINJRgIC&q=%22shun+fat%22+&pg=PA109 Excerpts available] at Google Books. although these stalls are operated by independent vendors with separate payment.

In 2005, Shun Fat Supermarket opened a {{convert|105000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} megastore in the Little Saigon of Westminster, California, joining the already highly competitive Vietnamese supermarket commerce in the community.Cziborr, Chris. (May 23, 2005) Orange County Business Journal [http://www.ocbj.com/search.asp?keyword=Little+Saigon+Superstore+Opens+at+Old+Kmart+Site&date1=&date2=&publication=All&category=All Little Saigon Superstore Opens at Old Kmart Site.] Volume 28; Issue 21; Page 3.

In June 2013, the market opened Dallas Superstore, marking its first expansion in Texas.

In 2017, Shun Fat sold the Monterey Park and Rowland Heights locations to Great Wall Supermarket.

In June 2019, the popular Asian supermarket opened its first Oregon branch in Southeast Portland's Jade District on 82nd Avenue and Foster Road, formerly a Fred Meyer store. This marked Shun Fat's fifteenth location and first in the Northwest.Lizzy Acker, [https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2019/06/shun-fat-supermarket-in-former-southeast-portland-fred-meyer-building-set-to-open-this-month.html "Shun Fat Supermarket in former Southeast Portland Fred Meyer building, set to open this month"], The Oregonian, June 3, 2019.