Tata’s Trading Card Co., a new retail store offering various types of trading cards, including sports, Pokemon, One Piece and Magic: The Gathering, opened Saturday in Brandon.
The card shop, at 517 N. Splitrock Blvd. next to King Bird Coffee in the Brandon Retail Center, announced an earlier opening date of Nov. 30 but needed to postpone because of shipping delays.
The previous tenant was BluMoon Mercantile gift shop. As of Monday, Tata’s Trading Card Shop still has the BluMoon signage on the front exterior of the space but will have its own installed in about two weeks.
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Along with selling a variety of trading cards, the space also has tables for friends and families to play card games together. Tata’s Trading Card Co. also has an online store on eBay and Whatnot, according to a Nov. 19 article in the Brandon Valley Journal.
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Eck’s grandparents were from South Dakota, and she had visited since she was a little kid, so Sioux Falls seemed like a good fit.
The business name, ‘Tata’ originated as a nickname for the owner’s daughter when she was a baby. Than is a first-generation American. His mother Ruos immigrated to the U.S. during the late ‘70s as a refugee from Cambodia after escaping the Khmer Rouge. Because English is her second language, it was a little difficult for her to pronounce Dakota’s name, so it became Tata, Eck said.
Tata’s Trading Card Co. logo, a card shop located at 517 N. Splitrock Blvd. in Brandon, SD.
“Johnny has been all about those trading cards since he was knee-high to a grasshopper, but now that our daughter Dakota is in the game, his passion has hit a whole new level of fun,” the business posted on Nov. 2 on its Facebook page.
Tata’s Trading Card Co is open noon- 7 p.m. Monday-Friday and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. on Saturday.
This article originally appeared on Sioux Falls Argus Leader: Tata’s Trading Card Co. opens in Brandon