A Maui Grocery Store Is Surviving Supply Chain Woes With ‘Personality And Nostalgia’ 1 Inflation is hitting everyone’s pocketbooks, including the longtime families running Hawaii’s mom and pop businesses.
“Guess what I got?” Shawn Fujisawa boomed as he burst through the grocery store’s side door onto the loading dock. Employees, heaving boxes onto dolly carts, stopped for a moment as the manager spoke.
“Mustard cabbage!”
Megan Nakashima was delighted. The 37-year-old is the president of Pukalani Superette, a small-town grocery store that her family opened almost seven decades earlier. The store has long been known for its shelves full of fresh, local produce, but mustard cabbage has been especially difficult to stock lately — along with almost everything else it seems, amid supply chain woes, sky-high shipping prices, drought and the dire overpopulation of deer on Maui that can destroy months of a farmer’s hard work in a single night.
