Southeast Michigan Retail: Motor City Retail History

The following is a SMR:MCRH Contributor Post.   This post will look at retail in Melvindale, Wayne County, MI. Rite Aid #4685 4016 Oakwood Boulevard, Melvindale, MI Driving distance and time from downtown Detroit: 10.7 miles, approx. 16 minutes This week's post takes us to yet another Rite Aid store courtesy of Former Retail Employee/Y4123. Rite Aid opened this store, located right in the middle of Melvindale's small downtown area and just a stone's throw away from the Detroit city limits, the Ford River Rouge Complex, and previously-featured-on-this-blog Best Buy #1406 , on May 11, 1997. Just recently, this store's exterior, just like an increasing number of Rite Aid stores, received an exterior remodel that saw the removal of the original blue entrance awnings and their replacement with the new logo. Not all awning stores that got the new logo had their awning removed, though, as exemplified by store #4545 in Wyandotte. At first glance, though, you'd think the in...

This post will look at retail in multiple Southeast Michigan cities. Finally, one of the most anticipated events to happen on this blog...the Family Video posts have begun! This post, the first of the series, is the list of all of the Family Video stores in southeast Michigan as of 2017, nearly four years before Family Video went out of business due to COVID and the resulting delays in new movie releases in turn triggering customer traffic declines. I am especially emphasizing 2017 specifically because this was before Family Video began the first of a series of closures leading up to the full closures in early 2021. Store #3 Address: 1552 East Pierson Road City: Flushing, MI County: Genesee Driving distance and time from downtown Detroit: 75.5 miles, approx. 1 hour 15 minutes Opened: 1995 Closed: February 2021 Status as of Publication Date: still vacant Courtesy Google Maps Store #58 Address: 30950 Dequindre Road City: Warren, MI County: Macomb Driving distance and time from downtown...