Customers shop at the Uniqlo Global Flagship store in the Soho neighborhood of of Manhattan. Uniqlo, which as been called the 'Japanese Gap', opened it's 36,000 square-foot flagship store on Broadway in Soho with much fanfare. The brand has 730 stores world-wide and was founded as a single store in Hiroshima in 1984. The Gap is the number one retailer worldwide with sales of $16 billion.