The Busch’s grocery store at
The Busch’s grocery store at the corner of South Main Street and South Main Street (why come up with new street names when you can just use some variation on Main, Fuller or Huron?) has aisles that are labeled with the names of Ann Arbor streets. So you can peruse soups while imagining yourself amid the hustle of Liberty Street, or frozen vegetables while pretending to step out of the way of drunk undergrads on South University.
It’s like New York-themed establishments that try to appropriate some of the city’s glamour by naming things after 42nd Street or the Bowery. Except the glamour chased after here is Ann Arbor’s. It’s hard to maintain my extreme negativity in the face of this kind of pure, guileless civic pride.
Oh, and the Ypsilanti Busch’s does not label its aisles. I’m not sure what that says about either city.