Tata’s Trading Card Co., a new store offering a variety 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 had to be postponed due to shipping delays.
The previous tenant was the BluMoon Mercantile gift shop. As of Monday, Tata’s Trading Card Shop will still have the BluMoon signs at the front of the space, but will be installing their own in about two weeks.
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In addition to selling a variety of trading cards, the space also has tables where friends and families can 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 been there since she was a little kid, so Sioux Falls seemed like a good fit.
The company name ‘Tata’ originated as a nickname for the owner’s daughter when she was a baby. Dan is a first-generation American. His mother Ruos emigrated to the US as a refugee from Cambodia in the late 1970s 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 reached a whole new level of fun,” the company posted on November 2. his Facebook page.
Tata’s Trading Card Co is open Monday to Friday from 12pm to 7pm and on Saturday from 11am to 8pm.
This article originally appeared on Sioux Falls Argus Leader: Tata’s Trading Card Co. opens in Brandon
