Seattle’s 97-year-old Asian grocer, Uwajimaya, expects customers to feel the pinch as distributors pass on costs from Trump’s shifting tariffs
Uwajimaya, the Seattle-based Asian grocer, has navigated hardship before.
Not long after the family business opened its doors in 1928, it temporarily closed when founders Fujimatsu and Sadako Moriguchi and several of their children were incarcerated at a Japanese detention camp during World War II.
More recently, the Covid-19 pandemic strained the grocery industry’s supply chain, forcing Uwajimaya, among others, to raise prices.
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