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Contributor Post: Adrian Can Still Count on Country Market!

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The following is a SMR:MCRH Contributor Post.   This post will look at retail in Adrian, Lenawee County, MI.   Kmart #9535 / Seaway Food Town #36/#6036 / Country Market #11 1535 West Maumee Street, Adrian, MI Driving distance and time from downtown Detroit: 73.7 miles, approx. 1 hour 23 minutes   Today's post is brought to you by yet another new contributor: James Kirslis, aka Decor Package, aka The Seaway Project on Discord. James brings us down to this Country Market store in the heart of Lenawee County, a remote, rural county southwest of Ann Arbor, to give us a look at another defunct supermarket chain -- one called Seaway Food Town. For those of you unfamiliar with the company, Seaway Food Town was a supermarket chain based out of the Toledo, Ohio suburb of Maumee, Ohio that started out as a co-operative operation before transitioning into a traditional chain as the company began branching out into various side ventures from drug stores to restaurants. It wasn't until 1965