page_title: H Mart
section_title: Canada
hierarchical_section_title: H Mart / Growth / Canada
caption_attribution_description: English: hmart
context_page_description: H Mart is a Korean-American supermarket chain operated by the Hanahreum Group headquartered in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. The chain, with locations throughout the United States and Canada, as well as 2 locations in London, specializes in providing Asian foods. The chain also operates several Super H Mart stores in the United States. H Mart is the largest Asian American grocery store chain, with 61 locations nationwide.
  The "H" in "H Mart" stands for Han Ah Reum, a Korean phrase meaning "one arm full of groceries". This phrase translates more literally to "spreading both arms to cover" or "armful".
context_section_description: H Mart began moving into Western Canada starting in December 2003 with their first store in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The original and the next three were a first for the Vancouver suburbs as the company opened their first western North American stores in Canada as opposed to the United States first.  Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco weren't scheduled to open until months later and the next year, respectively. In subsequent years, following the success of their first Canadian store, the company opened three additional locations in Downtown Vancouver and Langley in 2006 and Richmond in 2012 and Port Coquitlam in 2016.
  In 2013, the company opened its first urban convenience format on Yonge Street and Churchill Avenue in the Toronto-suburb of Willowdale called "M2M–morning to midnight". The two-story, 4,500 square feet (420 m²) store is the first one in Canada. There are currently two other M2M stores in Manhattan. A larger H Mart opened on Yonge Street in Richmond Hill, with another opening in Downtown Toronto across from Ryerson University in 2017.
  In July 2019 they opened a store in Edmonton, Alberta.
caption: Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, location.
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