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🎉Congratulations! The opening day was a huge success! 🎉 Thanks to you, we were able to complete our first day of opening without any problems! We had no problems, many customers lined up before the opening, and we were able to achieve our budget goal, so we are relieved. The only thing I regret is that the long sleeved spring clothes were late in arriving... The summer clothes arrived first, so it's still a little chilly in Vancouver, where the weather is currently 6 degrees Celsius. However, we are very grateful to all our customers for enjoying their summer shopping! The response on the first day of opening was good! From tomorrow onwards, we will continue to enjoy a soft landing and wait for the arrival of spring long sleeve items🌸 We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who visited our store, made a purchase, and to everyone who took the time to send flowers to celebrate! Thank you so much! Also, thank you to everyone at the cafe next door for your warm support and for the donuts you sent to promote the event! 🍩 We will continue to do our best to become a store that is loved by everyone in the community! 😊 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ✨️Opening Monday, March 10, 2025✨️ [KONNICHIWA MART KIDS & BABY] Our store operates more than 1,100 stores in Japan. We are an officially certified store of Nishimatsuya, a chain of baby and children's lifestyle goods stores founded in 1956. Address: 4512 Main St, Vancouver (Around East 29th Avenue x Main Street) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

🌸Business hours & new spring items in stock🌸 Thank you very much for your continued patronage! I'm Shima, the store manager. It's that time of year again when we look forward to warm sunshine. We have lots of cute new items coming in to help your kids welcome spring in good spirits! We would like to inform you about our upcoming business schedule and the new arrivals of spring items. [Business hours] March Weekdays: 10:00-17:00 Saturdays, Sundays and holidays: Closed Opening Saturday April! Weekdays and Saturdays: 10:00-17:00 Sundays and holidays: Closed Open on Sundays and public holidays in May! All days: 10:00-17:00 [New Spring Items Coming Soon] - New spring items will arrive around mid-April! While raising our 5-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son, my husband and I will work together to gradually increase the number of business days. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we appreciate your kind understanding. 👶About coming to the store with a stroller🍼 We have received many inquiries asking, "Is it possible to enter the store with a stroller?" Our store has an aisle large enough for two strollers, so you can enjoy shopping with your child at your leisure. We look forward to your visit! We look forward to your continued patronage. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ✨️Opening Monday, March 10, 2025✨️ [KONNICHIWA MART KIDS & BABY] Our store operates more than 1,100 stores in Japan. We are an officially certified store of Nishimatsuya, a chain of baby and children's lifestyle goods stores founded in 1956. Address: 4512 Main St, Vancouver (Around East 29th Avenue x Main Street) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hello everyone. My name is Amir and I am a Nigerian expatriate. The Hamatan season (dry season) is over, The humidity is high and the temperature is close to 40 degrees Celsius . Furthermore, it is Ramadan (fasting) time so every day is very busy! Even in these circumstances, I continue to go to the grounds every week and practice baseball . In the scorching heat, I'm sweating as I run around the field with the players . The other day I took batting practice and tried to hit the ball over the fence with a toss bat, but unfortunately I didn't reach it . Is it because of my age ...or is it the effect of fasting ? Also, I still need to do more strength training! I will continue to work hard on my muscle training and strive to be a role model for the other players!

I'll show you a little bit of how the gloves are made. The latest information is also posted on TikTok and Instagram ✨️ I would be happy if you followed me! TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@merge_japan3 Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/mergerick_nigeria Purchase here: https://shop.re-africa.com/ Thank you for your support ♪

Hello, I'm Kevin from Nigeria. After weeks of hard work, patience, and lots of hard work, the baseball glove is complete! 🎉 And it was shipped to Japan! 🇯🇵✈️ Making the gloves was much more difficult than I imagined. I used to make shoes, so I thought it would be similar, but when I actually tried making gloves I realized it was a lot more work than I had imagined . However, with the advice of my seniors and the experience I had gained from making shoes, I managed to complete the gloves. When you look at the finished glove you can see our hard work, skill and determination. To be honest, I didn't want to give up the gloves. However, I feel very proud that they will be sent to Japan. At Mergerick Nigeria, we don't just make gloves, we're learning, growing and proving that quality manufacturing can happen anywhere. I will continue to do my best. Thank you for your continued support! Buy Nigerian leather gloves here: https://shop.re-africa.com/

nice to meet you! My name is Omata and I am a staff member involved in running Hello Mart in Japan. I work in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Every February, Sapporo holds an event called the Snow Festival, where many tourists can see many snow sculptures. There are also snow slides for children, snow sculptures of popular Japanese characters, and a stage made out of snow to resemble a building, all of which are great sights to see. The Snow Festival also features ice sculptures that are not well known. At night, it is lit up, and you can see the beauty of ice, which snow cannot match. Part of the road is closed off so you can see many ice sculptures while you are traveling, adding color to Sapporo at night. Konnichiwa Mart operates in four locations: Hokkaido, Tokyo, Canada, and Nigeria. We will also occasionally post local information, so please look forward to it!

In fact, a plan had been in the works behind the scenes since the fall of 2024. It is a very popular chain that operates 1,120 stores in Japan. This is a plan to open a brick-and-mortar Hello Mart store that will mainly carry products from Nishimatsuya, a specialty store that sells baby and children's products. To achieve this, we first need to purchase Nishimatsuya products, sign a tenant contract for a physical store, prepare the fixtures, and then carry out interior construction work. I'm the only one working in Canada. It seems like a reckless challenge. First, we ordered approximately 10,000 items of children's clothing and miscellaneous goods from Nishimatsuya. With the cooperation of not only the head office but also a friend's company, we managed to transport about 120 cardboard boxes to Canada by sea. Preparing to ship from Japan to Canada In the meantime, we will look for a tenant and arrange for a work vehicle. The mileage is over 280,000 km! The power steering is broken, so my arms are tired. We found a tenant in a great location and signed a contract ✨️ As November arrived, the tenant we had contracted with vacated the premises and we began full-scale preparations for the interior! ···to be continued

Hello everyone. My name is Ani and I am a local staff member in Nigeria. Finally, we managed to lace up our baseball gloves by ourselves🎉 It was more difficult than I thought. Kevin had a hard time making sure the string was going the right way and going into the right hole. Abraham had a hard time finding the little holes and remembering the order in which to put the strings in. For me (Ani), the hardest part was tying the last string. The strings had to be straight and even, which took a lot more time and effort than I expected. Also, my hands hurt when I held the string tightly for long periods of time! Still, I finished lacing all of my gloves. It wasn't easy, but we're happy we made it . Learning this skill was very challenging and each step made us improve . At Mergerick Nigeria, students don't just make gloves, they also learn important skills like perseverance and hard work . From left: Ani, Kevin, Abraham

I'm Amir, a Nigerian expatriate. I made gloves with the leather I received⚾️ This time there were three different leather models. Two of them were too hard and one was so elastic and weak that it was impossible to make a baseball glove out of them. So they looked for a way to make gloves using leather from Nigeria and adjusted their manufacturing process . in particular, 1. Before sewing, cut the leather that is too elastic into the material for the glove. 2. Then, cut the hard leather 3. The palm area is glued together to reinforce it. Leather that is too elastic or too stiff is not suitable, but we will continue to work on it while looking for the best solution . As a result, the glove was successfully completed , but there was still an issue that it was not strong enough for high-level athletes. However, this is an important step and we are overcoming challenges every day as we move forward. We have already informed the leather factory of all the issues and our next shipment of leather is scheduled for next week for further testing . Please note that although the gloves we made this time are available for sale, they are not intended for professional athletes. Sorry 🙇‍♂️ Thank you for your understanding.