Giant had some I thought looked reasonable. They're a slightly upscale grocery chain.
I think that might be the first time that I've heard Giant called upscale.
So, was it kinda awkward when they taught you about World War II in US history class?
Most places tend to whitewash what students are taught to make the originating country look better. In some cases, it's worse than others, but we're certainly no peach about it. I think that if you look at the history of the United States and Japan, it isn't too hard to see why Japan didn't like us much. From my understanding, historically, Asian cultures have usually had a high sense of pride, zenophobia, and a culture of transgressions. In other words, they weren't likely to forget if you screwed them over, and the last thing they wanted was someone who wasn't Japanese telling them what to do.
Now, it's worthwhile to take a dive into history, and read about
Commodore Perry and his visits to Japan. Based upon what I said earlier, it should be pretty easy to understand why Japan didn't like us. Frankly, I think most would agree that Japan opening trade was actually good for them; however, they didn't want to be told to do it by outsiders and
especially didn't want to be coerced through threat of military force to do it.
It's worth noting that I used the word "historically" earlier, because Japan and other Asian nations aren't like that as much anymore. Of course, these things still exist. For example, the idea of the "culture of transgressions" exists in business as a basic agreement between companies was considered "morally binding" without a legal basis. This is how the infamous situation between Nintendo, Sony and Philips went down with the SNES CD add-on. It was preposterous that Nintendo would break a deal, because
you just didn't do that. Zenophobia still exists in some facets as there are shops in Japan that are closed off to non-Japanese.
There are also some other interesting things to consider about US history. For example, Hawaii's introduction into the Union was highly contested mostly due to the whole thing
being forced through an American military coup of the Hawaiian monarchy. There's also a ton of awkwardness around Texas's introduction into the Union and the following
Mexican-American War, which gave us the south-east United States. (We actually wanted to buy parts of northern California prior to the war.) Of course, as was common in the 1700s and 1800s, a lot of the western expansion was based on the continuation of slavery.

