  Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 751 Registered: 12-2005 |
When did they start? What was their story? What became of them? I only remember a pair of hearts. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 752 Registered: 12-2005 |
Kroger Co. buys 37 Detroit Great Scotts! | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 5074 Registered: 02-2004 |
... and I'm not going Krogering!!! | ||
Ericdfan Member Username: Ericdfan Post Number: 155 Registered: 08-2005 |
There used to be on on Warren ave and Garling Drive just west of Evergreen. It did become a Kroger, then a Food Basics, and now it is a Farmer Jack. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 5080 Registered: 02-2004 |
Well first the Supermarket on W.Warren Ave used to be A Great Scott, Krogers, Farmer Jack, Food Basics and now a Farmer Jack. | ||
Ericdfan Member Username: Ericdfan Post Number: 157 Registered: 08-2005 |
I only remember it being a farmer jack currently...It was a Kroger up until they tore down the plaza it was in a built it and built the Food Basics. There was a Farmer Jack down on Evergreen and Paul at the time when that location on Warren was a Great Scott and a Kroger. Actually, the Farmer Jack on Paul was a A&P before it was a Farmer Jack. I grew up in that Area, so hit me with your best shot! :-P | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 263 Registered: 04-2006 |
I think you're both technically, but it was built as a farmer jack, but never opened as one. What was torn down was a spartan store called the Warrendale Market which moved in when Kroger Closed. Funny thing is this is not technically in Warrendale, but rather it is in Dearborn Heights. I don't recall if this location was previously a Wrigley's or Chatham, but it would not surprise me. | ||
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1 Post Number: 258 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wow, the process is sort of backwards, I thought Food Basics replaced the Farmer JAcks, not the Krogers, and also, so Krogers and Farmer JAck have been sharing the same buildings in years huh? That's interesting. So some of the Food Basics became Farmer JAcks again, that's nice. Also, I went Krogering yesterday at the one in Harper Woods. Funny how they shiasted the one on Gratiot in Detroit out of all the five-star items such as a sushi bar. I've been to the ones in Grosse Poite and Harper Wodds, but I guess the things in the certain Krogers figure, huh? | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 265 Registered: 04-2006 |
Different building, same location, Farmer Jack's ripped down the mall that the former Kroger (which they bought as Warrendale Foods) to open it as an FJ. While constructing the building, the company went through a massive reorginzation which ended up with the food basics (I loved this food basics btw, great prices, new clean,). When they decided to sell off the food basics stores, they realized that they had a pretty good location here, that was near a lot of population and did not have a lot of competition (since they closed the nearby store on AA Trail and Evergreen) so they painted it, opened a pharmacy and a few other departments and rechristened it an FJ. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 212 Registered: 08-2006 |
Great scott used to be Wrigley's | ||
Designut Member Username: Designut Post Number: 93 Registered: 05-2006 |
Wow, I forgot all about Great Scott!. (I was still riding in the shopping cart in the 80's.) I also remember going to Arbor Drugs, which was next-door to our local Great Scott... (Arbor became CVS) | ||
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 360 Registered: 05-2006 |
Perry Drugs, Arbor Drugs, Great Scott, Revco Drugs, Cunningham's...what do they all have in common? All former Detroit Chain stores, now all sadly gone to the wayside. Detroitej72 | ||
Messykitty Member Username: Messykitty Post Number: 168 Registered: 03-2006 |
You forgot Chatham. | ||
Ericdfan Member Username: Ericdfan Post Number: 161 Registered: 08-2005 |
ah yes, that was a Warrendale Foods 4 a while...I had forgotten about that..prolly cause it was only open for like 4 months...lol | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 104 Registered: 11-2005 |
My memory of Great Scott comes from my days as a wee lad growing up in Farmington Hills. There was one on Orchard Lake and 12 (maybe? I don't go to FH anymore; I think it's now a CVS and ABC Warehouse) that had these cash registers that would "talk" to you. "Thank you for shopping at Great Scott," it would say in this robotic kind of way. When the year was 1985 or '86 and you're a 6-year-old, you wanted to go grocery shopping every day. I'm sure the cashiers wanted to shoot themselves after hearing it 50,000 times a night, but I couldn't get enough of it. Sorry, haven't heard that store's name in a long time. The nostalgia was too great (scott) to hold back. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 697 Registered: 07-2004 |
There was a Chatham 'round Warrendale way, but it was on Greenfield in Dearborn, between Ford and Michigan, I think. | ||
Fortress_warren Member Username: Fortress_warren Post Number: 50 Registered: 10-2006 |
There was a Great Scott in the "strip mall",(I hate that term) at Van Dyke and Martin. Right across from the Tank Ansenal. I worked for a month in the Great Scott in Franklin in 1970. Produce department, the manager looked like Larry Storch from "F Troop". "That's a Spicy Meatball". That was his mantra. | ||
Hornist9 Member Username: Hornist9 Post Number: 16 Registered: 05-2005 |
The former Chatham store at Nine Mile and Ryan is still going strong as Value Center Market. I do remember the Great Scott at Martin & Van Dyke...it's been a lot of different businesses over the years. | ||
Dillpicklesoup Member Username: Dillpicklesoup Post Number: 205 Registered: 05-2006 |
I bought some fish at Great Scotts! once- It was actually loaded with live crawling maggots- Lucky some outfit bought them- | ||
Dillpicklesoup Member Username: Dillpicklesoup Post Number: 206 Registered: 05-2006 |
I mean Great Scotts- not the maggots- duh | ||
Busterwmu Member Username: Busterwmu Post Number: 286 Registered: 09-2004 |
There was a GREAT SCOTT! in the Ford-Tel shopping center in Dearborn Heights that I used to go to as a youngster with my mother during the late 1980s. I think it later became a Harvest Foods, then sat for a while and reopened as a GFS Marketplace, which I believe it still is today. Thanks for bringing back some good memories - ahh the joys of riding in the cart! | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 848 Registered: 11-2003 |
I remember those old stores.. I also rememer Chathams grocery in Hazel Park off 75 and 9 mile. | ||
Urbanvaquero Member Username: Urbanvaquero Post Number: 336 Registered: 02-2004 |
My mother took my sister and I once a week to the Chatham on Southfield in Allen Park. I remember the old Plymouth Fury overheating down there and my aunt rescuing us with a gallon of water. It must have could have closed sometime soon after this incident, because after that I only remember shopping at the Great Scott that used to be where Highland Appliance used to be where the Michael's craft store is next to the Aco Hardware that used to be an "Ace" hardware before the lawsuit. After Great Scott closed on Michigan, my mother only went to Farmer Jack stores. At the time, the nearest Meijer was way down south at Eureka and Pardee. As for me these days, if I had to pick a chain grocery to go grocery shopping at, I'd go to a Kroger. And Kroger's private line is top-notch. And don't get me started on that quarter-inch trim and those dancing scissor-womyn. --Brenda | ||
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 382 Registered: 05-2006 |
Chatham Stores: 8 Mile and Gratiot, Kelley and State Fair(in Harper Woods), Hayes just north of Houston-Whittier, Kelly and Houston-Whittier, what memories this brings back to me... Me Mum and I would go grocery shopping on Friday nights...Mom would let me get a "favorite drink", which was a cheap juice in a non-descipt plasic bottle. If I was luckey, the deli would have free samples of some kind of pizza. I remember one time they didn't have it, and I told my mom to tell them to make it because I wanted it!!! Detroitej72's memories... I loved shopping with me mum, because me dad always told me "your going in my stead, you need to be the man." I still to this day like to take my mother grocery shopping. On a side note, The Chatham warehouse in Warren was at Schaonerr and Bunnert Road, a stone's throw from BI-County Flea Market has since become Butcher's Boy Meats. Detroitej72 | ||
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1 Post Number: 279 Registered: 08-2006 |
I assuming there was a Chatman or Great Scott at the varied locations. Lafayette@Chene Warren@St. Antoine. is it Southfield and Schoolcraft? and... and Great Scott on Harper and Moross. oh yes, and an AP on 8 Mile and Schoenher, in the ragedy, vacated shopping area. | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1262 Registered: 04-2005 |
Slightly off topic, but here is an old Farmer Jack store, whereabouts unknown.  | ||
Fastcarsfreedom Member Username: Fastcarsfreedom Post Number: 74 Registered: 11-2005 |
No idea on location--but cars suggest late 1970s or early 80s--I see an Impala and an Omni. If it helps with identification there is Texaco station next door--you can make out the sign frame. | ||
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1 Post Number: 320 Registered: 08-2006 |
It appears to be Van Dyke in Center Line Somewhere, I depicted that from the particular street lights. Also, It may be Jos Campau on the northern ed where it widens out, or possibly even Conant on the nothern end | ||
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1 Post Number: 322 Registered: 08-2006 |
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Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria Post Number: 1551 Registered: 02-2006 |
Well that clears it up. | ||
Dtown1 Member Username: Dtown1 Post Number: 323 Registered: 08-2006 |
For THOSE who are unable to see, the arrow around the red box is the detroit newstand and the arrow around the sign may be a in or exit or stop sign. | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 2893 Registered: 10-2003 |
Thanks Danny, Here's a list of Great Scott! locations from a 1961 phone book: Office, 12847 Connant Store No 1, 1011 Eastlawn Store No 2, 12420 Connant Store No 3, 14033 Maddelein Store No 4, 24425 Plymouth, Redford Store No 5, 24250 5 Mile Rd, Redford By 1967, they had added these locations: 27155 Cherry Hill, Inskster 22365 Ecorse, Taylor 24150 Ford, Dearborn Heights 7033 W Fort, Detroit 28250 Grand River, Redford 12021 Harper, Detroit 4007 Pelham, Dearborn Heights 29250 Plymouth, Livonia 5025 Schaefer, Dearborn 7407 E Seven Mile, Detroit 115 12th Street, Detroit Did Food Fair change their name to Farmer Jack's or was Farmer Jack's a separate chain who bought Food Fair? | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2978 Registered: 08-2004 |
I used to work for the Chatham Supermarket on Morang at Kelley (Store #8) back in the 1970's as a packer and later as a cashier. At the height of their popularity back then they numbered over 30 stores in Metro Detroit. The four Weisberg brothers who owned the stores sold them many years later. The new owners sucked the life out of the stores (using them as cash cows) until the chain went belly up. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 1290 Registered: 03-2006 |
I worked at Store No 2, at 12420 Conant between Garvin and Sobieski Sts. in the late 1950's and early 1960's. I have been waiting for 40+ years for someone to bring up the topic of Great Scott Super Markets so I can show off my "Great Scott Super Market I Am Here To Serve You" name tag. And, here it is!  Livedog2 | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 1264 Registered: 04-2005 |
^^^^ LOL Livedog,, thats great | ||
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude Post Number: 38 Registered: 03-2006 |
I remember the Great Scott on Plymouth Road. It was kitty-corner to the now-gone Wonderland Mall. I vaguely remember a Great Scott in Westland at the intersection of Ford Road and Wayne Road. But it could have been a Wrigley's or something other. Farmer Jack tried to make inroads into Virginia Beach VA several years ago but FJ's down-home, aw-shucks hillbilly image didn't sit well with the area's more edumicated populance. | ||
Beadgrl Member Username: Beadgrl Post Number: 8 Registered: 07-2006 |
I remember a Great Scott! at Orchard Lake and 10 Mile when i was a wee lass in Farmington Hills back in the mid 70's. That one eventually turned into an IGA. Was there a Chatham at Grand River and Halsted? I know there was a Kroger there in the early 80's. You can still see the linked hearts of Great Scott! on the Rochester Hills Salvation Army. | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 1922 Registered: 06-2004 |
I remember when people used to post on this forum about their memories of detroit. | ||
Beadgrl Member Username: Beadgrl Post Number: 9 Registered: 07-2006 |
Is that a swipe? I was just trying to make a comment in the thread. I hate to say it but I was born in 73 and my memories of Detroit are of a burning hell hole that i saw on tv on a nightly basis. Sorry that some memories on the threads are of METRO Detroit. Too bad you are offended. | ||
Eastside Member Username: Eastside Post Number: 942 Registered: 01-2005 |
Is the name Dabirch or Dabitch? | ||
Rjk Member Username: Rjk Post Number: 543 Registered: 11-2003 |
There was a GS at 12 mile and John R. I remember my mother going there and picking up items to make a birthday cake for my grandmother who lived in Detroit. How's that? | ||
Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria Post Number: 1556 Registered: 02-2006 |
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Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 1923 Registered: 06-2004 |
Much better. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 1291 Registered: 03-2006 |
That's not "Great" that's "Great Scott!" Livedog2 | ||
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude Post Number: 39 Registered: 03-2006 |
Dabirch, not all Great Scott grocery stores were inside the Detroit city limits. But Great Scott grocery stores were in the Detroit "area". I didn't think that me mentioning a suburban location was a problem for some. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 1293 Registered: 03-2006 |
Don't pay any attention to the Detroit Nazi's, Catman_dude. Say whatever you want, whenever you want without anyone's permission. When they start nipping at your heels just view it as an opportunity to practice ignoring assholes that have no control over their lives so they try to control yours! Livedog2 | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 865 Registered: 03-2006 |
there is a thrift store in Rochester that was a Great Scott and you can still make out the Heart logo in some spots in the store. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2982 Registered: 08-2004 |
... and speaking of Detroit Nazi's, go check out the Detroit7000 thread.... what a hoot! | ||
Michmeister Member Username: Michmeister Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2006 |
I remember a Chatham`s on Puritan and Greenfield together with the Merrill`s Drugstore. My mom didn`t shop much at the Chatham`s as she was more of a Farmer Jack`s gal.I worked at the Merrill`s about 25 years ago with a friend.What a strange place it was,in retrospect. |
