Yankee Stores

Yankee Stores was an American discount department store chain begun in Flint, Michigan. It was founded in 1948 as a military surplus store called U.S. Surplus. By 1964, it had become a discount chain with 21 stores throughout southeastern Michigan, primarily in Flint. Many of its locations were paired with local supermarket chain Hamady Brothers.^[1] Some of the larger stores, including ones in Lansing and Bay City, were called Yankee Stadium.^[2]

The chain was sold in 1965 to Borman Foods, then-parent of Farmer Jack supermarkets. Borman unsuccessfully expanded the chain into Metro Detroit, closing those stores by 1971.^[1] Borman's sold off the Yankee chain in 1972 to Zody's of California.^[3][4] Zody's closed its Michigan operations in 1974 when the chain filed for bankruptcy.^[1][5]

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