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[Ed. note: Uwajimaya's fish and seafood kitchen]

TM: Each of our retail store is, in terms of supermarkets, pretty small. But they're 25,000 square feet, approximately, and this store is approximately that size first floor. And in today's supermarket world they're about 40, 50,000. Like Safeway and Albertsons. But for Asian store I guess we're okay. But that's one of the reasons we're moving to a new store. Because we will have approximately twice the first floor of our Seattle store right now. But it's -- we have the fish department which is probably a percentage bigger than most typical supermarkets. And we have our fish and produce and everything else. It's pretty standard supermarket operation.

BF: Uh-huh. Now is there, what's the next largest competitor in the Asian grocery retailing? Would it be in Hawaii?

TM: Oh, no, no. You know, in Kent they built the Great Wall...

BF: Oh the Great... mall. Yeah.

TM: There's a branch, 99. I'm guessing there's 25, 30,000 square feet. The grocery part, I'm guessing. Or maybe a little less. But they're a good size operation. If you go to Los Angeles, they have three or four of these stores, about this size, if not larger. San Jose has one, and Chicago and New Jersey and places like that have large ones.

BF: Okay, so let's go out to the left.

[Interruption]

[Ed. note: shots of man cutting sashimi]

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