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HISTORY OF THE SUPERMARKETS AT 2259 E PALMER ST

Throughout the years, the supermarket building at 2259 E Palmer St in the Chene Corridor has seen many different owners, the most notable being Kroger. However, this was not the Kroger Michiganders know today. This store was one of Kroger's original supermarket stores, which were the type of stores that displaced neighborhood markets like CF Smith. These stores were not the big box stores we are accustomed to today with Kroger, but they were considered large for the time when the store opened in 1958. The store would later become one of Kroger's subsidiary store names under the BI-Lo Company, a budget-friendly grocery store. By 1975, Kroger had transitioned it back to a Kroger store, and in 1980, the store was sold to Samir Danou. It would then become a "Rite-Way Foods" store, one of the first three locations Retail Danou purchased. The store operated under Rite-Way Foods until the late 1990s, when the Chene Corridor area was past its prime from the 1950s. The building, along with other notable buildings on the Chene Corridor, was featured in the 2016 Transformer movie and was labeled as a bowling alley for the movie's purposes.