Fruit and vegetable section inside the new Dai Thanh Supermarket at 1641 North Capitol Avenue in San Jose, January 2023.
After the grocery company sold its store in downtown San Jose’s SoFA district for $17 million, Dai Thanh turned around and bought an existing retail building on Tully Road for $6.8 million and an An-Jan Feed & Pet Supply at the corner of Monterey Road and San Jose Avenue for $7.9 million, purchase deals that occurred in July 2021.
However, the city’s approval process to allow a supermarket to emerge at the An-Jan Feed & Pet property has been sluggish, in Hua-Yamada’s view. In December, around Christmas, Dai Thanh Supermarket closed its long-time downtown San Jose store where it had operated for more than 35 years. The company scrambled to open the new North Capitol store.