Originally Posted by JAXPax

You threw a red-herring in there but once I was pretty certain of the city (it's a location I used to have in my region as a regional manager for an airline, that used a gate next to United) the Michigan connection made sense. The wall tile looked familiar.

I'm going to posit this is Columbus, OH John Glenn (CMH). Which is home to Ohio State, also in the Big 10, which would make sense to have Michigan items on sale either around a game.