Northville and Plymouth, MI chain grocery/supermarket locations
Posted: 21 Sep 2018 11:43
Here's a list that almost rivals Lindsay, Ontario for brevity:
Northville, MI supermarket history 1938-2018, and Plymouth, MI 1938-60
Why Northville? It's a small place tucked in the northwest corner of Wayne County, but I did it purely for personal, familial reasons. What's more, even though my directories cut off after 1960, I was able to pinpoint store opening dates with precision and extend the table through the present day simply through judicious use of the local newspaper archive and my own intimate familiarity with the city.
Northville has historically been combined with the neighbouring community of Plymouth in city directories, so it made sense to cover Plymouth as well. Unfortunately Plymouth is a bigger place and its newspaper archives are far less chronologically thorough, so I wasn't able to construct its post-1960 history with any modicum of accuracy. That means stores like this one (which opened sometime between 1960 and 1975, and closed in 1984) couldn't be listed:
Northville, MI supermarket history 1938-2018, and Plymouth, MI 1938-60
Why Northville? It's a small place tucked in the northwest corner of Wayne County, but I did it purely for personal, familial reasons. What's more, even though my directories cut off after 1960, I was able to pinpoint store opening dates with precision and extend the table through the present day simply through judicious use of the local newspaper archive and my own intimate familiarity with the city.
Northville has historically been combined with the neighbouring community of Plymouth in city directories, so it made sense to cover Plymouth as well. Unfortunately Plymouth is a bigger place and its newspaper archives are far less chronologically thorough, so I wasn't able to construct its post-1960 history with any modicum of accuracy. That means stores like this one (which opened sometime between 1960 and 1975, and closed in 1984) couldn't be listed: