Owners of ABC Stores buy Kauai business with similar family roots

The owners of the ABC Stores chain have bought a family-owned Kauai store with similar business roots. The Kosasa family purchased the Sueoka Store in Koloa for an undisclosed price, the Associated Press reported over the weekend. The Kosasas and Sueokas have similar histories. Both retail businesses were started by first-generation Japanese immigrants who came to Hawaii to work on the plantations. Mankichi and Yoshi Sueoka opened a small store in Koloa in 1928 to serve plantation workers and moved…