JACKSON TWP. – Customers, most carrying bags or pushing the occasional cart, filtered in and out of Fishers Foods on the 92-year-old chain's final day.

"All sales final" and "all ice 50% off" signs on the Frank Avenue NW entrance door were the only indication that it would close after Oct. 14. The side facing Fulton Drive NW still had banners advertising that a "reimagined" Fishers Foods was in the works.

Julie Miller left with the grocer's signature smiley cookies and cream sticks that she planned to freeze and take to her older sister in California. They were born and raised with the treats.

"Fishers has been here my whole life, too," the 60-year-old Miller said. "It's just sad."

Miller recalled working as a Fishers Foods cashier around the turn of the century and later helping a fri

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