Southeast Michigan Retail: Motor City Retail History

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 unti...

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...